FRINGE REVIEW: The End of Hope, The End of Desire

This two-person show aims low but scores wildly high with a quietly absurd and delightful post-coital chat.

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FRINGE REVIEW: The End of Hope, The End of Desire

POSTED: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 4:45 PM

Filed Under: Arts | On the Fringe Theater

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: The End of Hope, the End of Desire

GROUP: Tiny Dynamite & Extreme Measures

GENRE: Theater

ATTENDED: Fri. Sept 14, 10 p.m.

CLOSES: Fri., Sept 21

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: Two strangers meet up for a night of "anything goes" and are surprised to see where it takes them. Mice, god, fame, and Tony Blair are only a few of the things that come up in this hilarious comedy from Belfast playwright David Ireland about people trying to connect.

WE THINK: Fresh from describing the anal-sex proclivities of a beau in Raw Stitch, Corinna Burns runs down the block to Sansom Street’s church/theater, puts on a mouse mask, gets an Irish accent, jumps under the covers and confronts equally Irish Jared Michael Delaney on the topics of the sex they just had, the differences between Channel 4 and ITV, the need to hide and unwitting fame. With its bare-bones setting and quiet conversational largesse, End of Hope aims low but scores wildly high with a quietly absurd and delightful post-coital chat.

—A.D. Amorosi

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