Wild Man

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You're just going to have to take Matthew Maguire's word for it that he is, at heart, a "wild man," because there's precious little direct evidence on view during Wild Man, his hour-long autobiographical monologue at the Wild Project.

Even when he flubs an occasional word during his highly stylized delivery, Maguire never breaks character: a control freak who has choreographed every last word of this near-robotic bragfest. The resulting performance suggests watered-down Sam Shepard -- who, being truly cool, would not have to work so hard to seem so. (It's not Maguire's fault that he resembles Bing Crosby in a particularly mellow mood.)

Maguire's text is like a one-sided version of the kin[...]