IRC widens the scope of what absurdism means in our absurd world

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 the prime comedic role of…

Chuck Schultz reviews Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s DREAM GIRL in sketch and words.

John Rosenberg brings his series of long-form interviews to Phindie with IRC director Tina Brock.

Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.

Tennessee Williams slept with my boyfriend’s father. I love saying that at a party.

ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.

Henrik Eger talked to the IRC cast about their production of Jean Anouith’s play.

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

The IRC prove once again that they are able to pluck strange fruits out of theatrical history and serve them up ably.

I’ve been sitting in on some of the absurdist theater company’s rehearsals, sketching and liking what I see.

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 language,” is probably the most…

Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.

What to see at the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Comparinge the absurdist comedy of Giraudoux with the serious drama of Ibsen.

Philly’s favorite absurdist company Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium revives Jean Giraudoux’s THE ENCHANTED.

IRC presents a must-see revival of Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 classic THE CHAIRS, a defining work of the theater of the absurd.

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.

Tina Brock talks about Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s Fringe show Eugene Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS.

Can’t decide what to see in the 2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival? Check out Deb Miller’s recommendations in her annual top picks preview.