"…shines in showing how fragile and even surreal our family roles can be..."
"As Fannie, Brock gives a deceptively layered performance."
"John Zak is fully embodied as the genius poet and loving father slipping in and out of his own mind."
"Kirsten Quinn’s Mags is full of yearning and grace. Her need for approval is grounded, never shrill or petulant."
"...brilliant, unflinching performances that tie us to their real-life counterparts as I’ve never seen before."
"I'm willing to venture that this material has never seemed so lucid, or emerged with such sweet poetry, as it does here."
"...leave it to Tina Brock and her mighty little Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium to choose to bring The Two Character Play to absurd life once more, and to make us feel all the crazy, despairing desperation it contains."
"The actors, consummate veterans, are ridiculously sublime... top of the line designers—sound, scene, lighting, costume, who know what they’re doing..."
Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee Williams
“The Eccentricities of a Nightingale is a brilliant cabinet of curiosities.”
“…outrageous mayhem, incorrect and hilarious…” “Sex! Violence! More sex! More violence! IRC’s hilarious production of Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation is a total hoot.”
“...this powerful reappraisal of Come Back, Little Sheba will live on in your memory long after the lights go up. Think you know William Inge? Think again.”
“It's not that way, it's over here...a wonderfully immersive experience...increasingly ridiculous and heightening stakes are a masterclass in comedic scene work...”
“…tragic…hilarious…political…psychological…absurd…People laughed. People cried. Mostly we just sat wide-eyed and amazed.”
“...a sublime trip through the ridiculous... zany, intrepid company…”
“...daring little company…”
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Join us September 2 - 21, as we return to the stage for this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival with Tina Howe’s Pulitzer-nominated Painting Churches, an examination of family relationships, aging and art, at Theatre Exile (1340-48 13th Street) in South Philadelphia.
“A radiant, loving and zestfully humorous play…distinctly Chekhovian…” --Time
“…beautifully written…a theatrical family portrait that has the shimmer and depth of Renoir portraits…” --The New York Times
Listen to Tina Ann Brock's interview about Painting Churches on A.D. Amorosi’s Theater in the Round on NPR Affiliate WPPM (106.5 FM)
Listen to Tina Ann Brock's interview about Painting Churches and Philly Theater with Darnell Radford on the Broadstreet Review Podcast.
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Absurd, abstract and intriguing, Into the Absurd reveals the passions and purpose of creators around the country in a 50 minute conversation happening Saturdays at 5 pm at the virtual dinner table, hosted by Tina Brock, Producing Artistic Director of The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, a Philadelphia-based theater whose mission is producing existentialist and absurdist theater. We'll Bring Good Nothingness to Life each week, keeping playwright Samuel Beckett's famous phrase front of mind: "You Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On." Join us as we illuminate creative works and creative thinking, finding the poetry in existentially challenging times, sharing a laugh and always a story -- connecting us to our works and to each other. On on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart, and wherever you get your Podcasts.
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