Articles and reviews of Philadelphia’s Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC)
IRC producing artistic director Tina Brock interviews Christopher Munden about Kensington Soccer Club, Chosen by Committee, his work as a theater critic and editor, and his hungry cat Walter cat.
View More Phindie editor Christopher Munden goes Into the Absurd
Philly’s absurdist theater company continues to bring good nothingness to life even in this time of absurd nothingness
View More IRC Goes Into the Absurd with A Weekly Virtually Existential Dinner Conversation
IRC widens the scope of what absurdism means in our absurd world
View More COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe review
For their June show, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium decided to take on a grotesque play by Christopher Durang which Tina Brock directed. Brock herself has…
View More BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION (IRC): A terribly funny nightmare of a beach trip
Chuck Schultz reviews Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s DREAM GIRL in sketch and words.
View More Theater in Sketch: DREAM GIRL (IRC)
John Rosenberg brings his series of long-form interviews to Phindie with IRC director Tina Brock.
View More Getting to Know Tina Brock of Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.
View More ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review (2nd)
Tennessee Williams slept with my boyfriend’s father. I love saying that at a party.
View More ECCENTRICITIES and random notes on Tennessee Williams
ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.
View More ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review
Henrik Eger talked to the IRC cast about their production of Jean Anouith’s play.
View More Remembering TIME REMEMBERED: Interviews with the IRC cast
Sketches of TIME REMEMBERED by Jean Anouilh, presented by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium February 6-March 4, 2018 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5
View More Theater in Sketch: TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)
The IRC prove once again that they are able to pluck strange fruits out of theatrical history and serve them up ably.
View More TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?
I’ve been sitting in on some of the absurdist theater company’s rehearsals, sketching and liking what I see.
View More Theater in Sketch: Previewing TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)
The Bald Soprano always wears her hair in the same style. And The Bald Soprano, written in 1950 by Eugene Ionesco as a “tragedy of…
View More EUGÈNE IONESCO’S THE BALD SOPRANO (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2017 Fringe review
Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.
View More Eugene Ionesco’s THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): 2017 Fringe Review
What to see at the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
View More 24 Picks for the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Comparinge the absurdist comedy of Giraudoux with the serious drama of Ibsen.
View More Theater in Sketch: THE ENCHANTED (IRC) and A DOLL’S HOUSE (Swarthmore)
Philly’s favorite absurdist company Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium revives Jean Giraudoux’s THE ENCHANTED.
View More THE ENCHANTED (IRC): a great revival speaks to our times
IRC presents a must-see revival of Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 classic THE CHAIRS, a defining work of the theater of the absurd.
View More THE CHAIRS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2016 Fringe review 8
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings Eugene Ionesco’s hilarious, controversial, absurdist classic THE CHAIRS to the 2016 Fringe Festival. We talk to director Tina Brock about the show.
View More “Casting call” for the chairs in Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS: Interview with IRC artistic director Tina Brock