ON THE FRINGE: Thom Pain

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ON THE FRINGE: Thom Pain

POSTED: Friday, September 3, 2010, 8:00 PM

Every night, we're hitting the Live Arts/Fringe fest like a pack of culture-hungry wolves. Every morning, we're howling about it at citypaper.net/fringe. Every afternoon on Critical Mass, we're rounding up the previous night's reviews.

WE SAW IT YESTERDAY >> Thom Pain: Based on Nothing

There's little common sense from Will Eno's smarmy, scruffy, sadsack Thom Pain (no, not Thomas Paine). His everyman anti-hero — gloriously played by Christopher M. Bohan with twitchy, bouncy abandon — conducts a disturbing yet mesmerizing self-vivisection. When he says "If I were you I'd be sick of this already," accept the challenge and stay; the harrowing story he disgorges in all his desperate showiness (there's a raffle — no there isn't!) and messy non sequiturs ("I have that same shirt!") is gut-wrenchingly cathartic. Though Luna tries too hard (awkward life-size cutout?), by this wild hour's end, forgiveness feels right. —Mark Cofta

SEE ALSO >> Dracula Think our reviews are so right? Or so totally wrong? Visit citypaper.net/fringe to leave a comment. But don't forget that we are wolves.

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Posted 2010-09-27 03:15:43

Very interesting post. Thanks again.. Please Keep it Up!!

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