The Word Begins

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[Ed. Note: This is the third in a series of TM review roundups of shows in the 2010 Under the Radar Festival.]

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With her short-cropped hair, and dressed in a black suit with red tie, Peggy Shaw doesn't look like your typical 65-year-old grandmother -- nor does she talk like one as she shares intimate details about her aging body in MUST the inside story, at the Public Theater. A collaboration with the London-based Clod Ensemble, and co-written by director Suzy Willson, the show features beautifully scripted passages that are simultaneously grounded in Shaw's autobiography and set loose into flights of fancy.

MUST incorporates a jazzy score by Paul Clark, performed live b[...]