ArtsFlash: Anonymous Theatre, tonight @ the Wilma

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ArtsFlash: Anonymous Theatre, tonight @ the Wilma

POSTED: Monday, July 13, 2009, 10:20 PM

Filed Under: Arts Theater

We can't tell you much about tonight's Anonymous Theatre show, and that's the way the Philadelphia Dramatists Center wants it. Here's the scoop from our own Matt Petrillo, who previewed the show in last week's CP:

As the romantic leads stumble through the third annual Anonymous Theatre production, written by a group of unnamed local Philadelphia playwrights, deception and cleverness meet to intentionally befuddle the actors into unstaged chaos. Only the director knows each cast member's piece in the play ' until the houselights dim. Then the shenanigans unwind into a brutal attempt to produce cohesion from confusion.

From PDC's Web site, a brief list of characters who'll show up tonight:

Raymond, not old but prematurely withered, an emaciated specter
Daddy Christian, a bear of a man in a dapper light colored suit
Kingsley, a slight man barely out of his teens
The Photographer, dressed in a garish and flamboyant outfit, with a hot bod and Brad Pitt's hair from Burn After Reading
Eclectus, a tropical-bird-like creature with lush and gaudy plumage and a voice as grating on the ear as the sight is pleasing on the eye

Here's hoping they don't crash and burn ' although that's part of the fun.

Mon., July 13, 8 p.m., $16-$20, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. 215-546-7824, pdc1.org.

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