ON THE FRINGE: Amedee, or How to Get Rid of It

The 15-year-old, stubbornly growing corpse in the bedroom represents all manner of encroaching miseries on the couple's marriage.

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ON THE FRINGE: Amedee, or How to Get Rid of It

POSTED: Sunday, September 11, 2011, 11:00 AM

As puppet theater, Nick Allin and Lindsey Burkland’s clever, playful production of Ionesco’s play is kinda sloppy: The walls of the dollhouse-size apartment set are continually toppling over, the puppetry is of the “little kids shaking dolls to simulate conversation” variety, and the performers occasionally forget the
setting altogether, standing up from the tabletop stage to address each other directly. But this isn’t a puppet show, exactly. The performers’ testy interactions add an extra layer of discontent to the original; where the 15-year-old, stubbornly growing corpse in the bedroom represents all manner of encroaching miseries on the couple’s marriage, the puppeteer’s rolled eyes and agitated snatching of props suggests the entire production is a bit of passive-aggressive role-play.

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