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Tag: Tina Brock

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Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee Williams

Kathryn Osenlund September 15, 2022 No Comments

This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre’s tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience,  up close…

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TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 9, 2022 1 Comment

Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams

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Phindie editor Christopher Munden goes Into the Absurd

Smalley Bogg January 15, 2021 No Comments

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.

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IRC Goes Into the Absurd with A Weekly Virtually Existential Dinner Conversation

Christopher Munden July 30, 2020 No Comments

Philly’s absurdist theater company continues to bring good nothingness to life even in this time of absurd nothingness

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THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): It’s not that way. It’s over here

Joshua Herren February 8, 2020 1 Comment

We are living in absurd times

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WOMAN AND SCARECROW (Irish Heritage Theatre): When did this all end in tragedy?

Toby Zinman October 27, 2019 No Comments

An existential, feminist play of wildly mournful keening, filled with rich Ianguage, intense questions, and rueful comedy

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Features Fringe Festival Theater

Spooky Queers, Reimagined Classics, Giant Misses: 2019 Fringe recap from an outsider

Joshua Herren September 26, 2019 2 Comments

3 weeks. 10 plays. My first Fringe Festival.

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COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 19, 2019 No Comments

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

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Reviews Theater

BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION (IRC): A terribly funny nightmare of a beach trip

Margaret Darby June 16, 2019 No Comments

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…

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Theater in Sketch: DREAM GIRL (IRC)

Chuck Schultz February 18, 2019 No Comments

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

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Getting to Know Tina Brock of Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

John Rosenberg January 22, 2019 No Comments

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

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ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review (2nd)

Margaret Darby September 21, 2018 No Comments

Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.

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ECCENTRICITIES and random notes on Tennessee Williams

Kathryn Osenlund September 14, 2018 No Comments

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

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ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 7, 2018 No Comments

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

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THE WOMEN OF IRELAND (Irish Heritage Theater): Short Irish classics

Dorie Byrne April 15, 2018 1 Comment

From modern to historic, tragic to fantastic, THE WOMEN OF IRELAND views the feminine from many angles, creating a fleshed out sculpture of Irish life.

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Remembering TIME REMEMBERED: Interviews with the IRC cast

Henrik Eger February 24, 2018 No Comments

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

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Theater in Sketch: TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)

Chuck Schultz February 13, 2018 No Comments

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

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TIME REMEMBERED (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): review
Reviews

TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?

Julius Ferraro February 13, 2018 No Comments

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

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Features Film

Dinner for One: The greatest cult film you’ve never heard of

Henrik Eger February 12, 2018 10 Comments

A comedy little known in its native Britain has become a cult favorite in Germany.

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Features Fringe Festival

International Fringe 2017: A welcome to theater from around the world coming to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Henrik Eger September 15, 2017 No Comments

Welcome to Philadelphia, international Fringe artists.

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