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Our Balzac is Showing
Production info:
Company: A Lot Like Listening Productions
Directed by: Grace Fitzpatrick, Jayce Mckenzie, Zachary Parsons-Lozinski
Written by: Grace Fitzpatrick, Jayce Mckenzie, Zachary Parsons-Lozinski
Starring: Grace Fitzpatrick, Jayce Mckenzie, Zachary Parsons-Lozinski
Our Balzac is showing easily earns the somewhat dubious award of "most humping in a 2011 Fringe show." It's perhaps not one that's highly contested but an energetic cast of three thrust their way through story after story of love gone wrong, simulating sex all along the merry way. It's got some campy fun in the overall vibe and gets energized by the sheer eagerness of the cast, and the younger crowd I saw it with certainly got their fare share of laughs, though the older gentleman to my right reached his threshold early and just shook his head with each new pelvic motion. Take that as ringing endorsement if you'd like, but a bit more variety would've been nice, and I don't mean in the assumed positions. There really isn't much going on here above the waist.
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