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N.O.N.C.E.
Production info:
Company: Steve Larkin
Starring: Steve Larkin
Steve Larkin's recollections of being poet-in-residence at a "therapeutic prison" in the UK is a darkly hypnotic, occasionally hilarious mini-masterpiece of slam storytelling. Larkin's slam-poet style enlivens a clever, rhythmic monologue that's as engrossing as the handful of actual poems he scatters in among the unfolding events. Larkin doesn't shy away from anything in the story—this is a prison ward full of murderers, rapists and pedophiles that he's trying to teach—and his own obsession with these men goes to some strange, bleak places that damage his life outside the walls. But on just about every level, N.O.N.C.E. succeeds in making the story arc a gripping one to watch.
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