Unfortunately, grim is the best way to describe Company One’s recent production of Grimm, a retelling of seven classic Brother’s Grimm fairy-tales. Clocking in at a laborious 2 hours and forty five minutes, these “re-imagined” vignettes were not the dark and thoughtful pieces I had hoped for, but on the whole were a poorly written [...]
If you’re looking for sophisticated dialog, witty repartee, and a thoughtfully developed and seamless plot- you won’t be finding it in Boston’s newest interactive theatre piece, Fishnet.networks.net- but if you’re looking for a fun way to spend an evening with friends, throw back a few beers, and have a few laughs, it might be just [...]
After Brian Tuttle and 11:11 Theatre Company’s holiday season offering, The Three (Un)Wise Men, I was apprehensive about my trip to The Factory Theatre for Tuttle’s newest tale, Foreverendia. The Three (Un)Wise Men wasn’t a BAD show, in fact, I gave it a pretty good overall review, but it wasn’t a pithy thing, and it [...]
11:11 Theatre Company is a current resident of Mass Ave’s own Factory Theatre, an oppressively large loft complex housing a tiny, but neat, black box performance space- with limited seating (49), limited heating (brr), and limited resources (claustrophobic little booth, no access to bathrooms for the actors!) but 11:11 makes the space pleasant and inviting. [...]