ON THE FRINGE: The Speed of Surprise!

Alison King's entrance - sporting a towering bouffant and neon-purple leggings as a space vixen on a cardboard-and-spare-parts set - sets the tone for the Groundswell Players' send-up of vintage (and cheap) sci-fi.

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ON THE FRINGE: The Speed of Surprise!

POSTED: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 12:50 PM

Alison King’s entrance — sporting a towering bouffant and neon-purple leggings as a space vixen on a cardboard-and-spare-parts set — sets the tone for the Groundswell Players’ send-up of vintage (and cheap) sci-fi. Jesse Bowie Paulsen (the crew’s requisite foreign species), Jack Meaney (the rock-jawed captain), and Scott Sheppard (the shorts-pantsed sidekick) all nail the archetypes, but unfortunately this frontier’s been explored so much that the jokes hardly seem alien. With such an able cast and the gifted Charlotte Ford at the helm, it’s disappointing that the show devolves into so much flailing about in zero G.

Through Sept. 10, $15, The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. MORE INFO HERE.

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