So most of us have read (or seen) the Stepford Wives, Ira Levin's dark satire that dispels any romantic vision of suburbia, revealing it instead as a carefully concocted patriarchy whose robotic-like women are literally all wire and spark. A more hilarious and disconcerting scenario? Suburbia unplugged. If you think all city-skirting communities are innocuous spheres filled only with the inane, the dull and the quietly desperate, prepare to be rocked by Michael Yates Crowley's new play Evanston: A Rare Comedy, directed by Michael Rau, which opened last night as part of the underground film festival at P.S. 122 in the East Village. In A Rare Comedy, inspired by the opening words of Psalm 137, the Illinois college town of Evanston seems on the verge of total collapse: its housewives can only comprehend life (and death) through the language of their receipts,...
- 7/16/2009
- by Elizabeth O'Neill
- Huffington Post
Wolf 359 presents a new, full-length play by Nyfa Fellow Michael Yates Crowley, directed by Michael Rau. Evanston: A Rare Comedy will debut in July 2009 as part of the undergroundzero festival at P.S. 122, and then in August will be performed at Here Arts Center as part of their Summer Sublet Series. From the writer/director team behind The Ted Haggard Monologues, this black comedy begins with the disappearance of a teenage girl in deepest suburbia and ends when a meeting of The Evanston Women?s Book Club goes horribly awry.
- 6/29/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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