Alison Whittaker begins her one-woman show provocatively, telling folks in the audience how they would acquiesce, maybe even with a smile, if she stuck her hand up their private parts.
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“FWD: Life Gone Viral” is about much more than the foibles of 21st-century technology. Both funny and profound, it’s a vivid story about relationships in modern times.The show, onstage at The Marsh, stars local theater veterans Charlie Varon and Jeri Lynn Cohen, playing all of the roles. They co-wrote the piece with longtime friend and collaborator David Ford, who directs with finesse.
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It’s best to think of “FWD: Life Gone Viral” as a festive 21st-century farce — with memorable, quirky twists.Onstage at The Marsh, the show, which features the creative genius of locals Charlie Varon and Jeri Lynn Cohen, takes behaviors in today’s über-mod, techno world and places them under the microscope. The premise is simple: an oncologist (Cohen) tells her patient (Varon) that he’s been misdiagnosed with cancer.
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“How are you?” That’s the cheerful, empty question that Brian Copeland faces repeatedly — from friends, acquaintances and strangers — at the beginning of his latest solo autobiographical piece, “The Waiting Period.” “Fine,” he mutters hastily.But he’s not fine at all — in fact, everything, including hair, hurts — and over the course of about 75 minutes, we learn why.
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Geoff Hoyle is such a superbly physical comic actor, it’s hard to imagine him growing old. Yet he ages before our very eyes in “Geezer.”Death and decay are at the center of this bracing new solo show, which opened Thursday at the Marsh.
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