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The Thugs - Available light [theatre]
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The Columbus Dispatch wrote Mystery plays well in office setting
Saturday, September 22, 2007
By Michael Grossberg
Office politics are usually played for laughs on television, but New York playwright Adam Bock aims as much for mystery and anxiety as comedy in The Thugs.
Available Light (theatre) mostly fulfills Bock's tricky intentions in its solid ensemble production, which opened Thursday at Columbus Dance Theatre.
Under Matt Slaybaugh's direction, eight actors master Bock's rhythmic dialogue while convincingly playing ninth-floor office workers whose fears are aroused by gossip about strange activities on other floors.
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wildgoose77
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Columbus Alive wrote What's the word
By Jay Weitz
Do not go to Available Light [Theatre]'s The Thugs by Adam Bock expecting Shakespearean eloquence. In fact, don't even go to The Thugs expecting more than a few dozen complete sentences.
What is so fascinating about The Thugs is how much it manages to achieve with such relatively little means. It presents the suggestive power of language even as it disintegrates in the spaces between one person's mouth and another person's ear.
Ostensibly, The Thugs is about an office full of legal temps in a building that may or may not be under siege by a murderer. Rumors spread about mysterious disappearances. Police interrupt the workday to interrogate random people. The office is a microcosm of Bush-Cheney era fear.
What's happening in a larger sense, however, is that these people are imposing a narrative on their fragmentary knowledge of their immediate world. The audience in turn imposes its own narrative on its equally fragmentary knowledge of what these characters barely manage to say to each other.
Available Light's ensemble, under the direction of Matt Slaybaugh, has a fairly good grasp of Bock's painstakingly deconstructed dialogue, equal parts Pinter, Mamet and Beckett.
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Slay wrote Thursdays are "Pay-what-you-can" days.
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Last chance to see "The THUGS".
What happens when the lights go out in "The THUGS"?
Everyone who sees the play leaves talking about it, but you only have 3 more days to find out. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday @ 8pm. Have you bought your tickets yet?
The Columbus Dispatch calls it "an elliptical drama of workplace paranoia" and "a quirky comedy of modern anxiety". Read the Dispatch review here:
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