FRINGE REVIEW: You Don't Say

Tangle cleverly interweaves this silent drama with feats of flexibility, strength and skill performed on trapeze, rope, aerial silk and other props.

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FRINGE REVIEW: You Don’t Say

POSTED: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 10:49 AM

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: You Don’t Say

GROUP: Tangle

GENRE: Circus theater

ATTENDED: Thu., Sept. 13, 8 p.m.

CLOSES: Sat., Sept. 15

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: A trapeze, a rope, a dinner table. Tangle's aerial acrobats explore relationships and resist the pull of gravity in this dynamic circus-theater show. When a group of friends gather for an evening, they misread intentions, intensify attachments, avoid calls, and splice lines of communication.

WE THINK: If Hazel should invite you to her next dinner party, you may want to pass. There’s a lot of tension, ex-girlfriend drama and hurt feelings — plus everyone else will be way better than you at aerial acrobatics. Tangle cleverly interweaves this silent drama with feats of flexibility, strength and skill performed on trapeze, rope, aerial silk and other props. Aside from the sheer terror/awe of watching the pregnant Deena Weisberg take gracefully to the trapeze and self-mocking girls-at-a-dinner-party sound pieces, the fun is watching relationships resolve (and then dissolve) as the women swing through the air and then, often as not, leave one another hanging.

—Samantha Melamed

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