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I Saw You
Open run: Wed 8 PM,Theater & Performance
Bruised Orange Theater Company's I Saw You is a charming theatrical interpretation of "I Saw You," "Matches," and "X-Matches" listings from the Reader. Performed in bars, each show features a rotating cast of three actors presenting ads published in the past year, the yearnings of their anonymous characters echoing the banter, flirting, and stares of the patrons. The material is naturally funny--"I backed up your toilet something fierce," "Do you like to churn butter?"--but the actors avoid the trap of easy "sexy" voices and imaginatively embellish the text with a wide range of accents and consistently surprising attitudes (shy to monstrous, robotic monotone to smarmy). —Ryan Hubbard
$5
773-525-1668Lascivious Something
Through 6/8: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Mon 5/20, 7:30 PM, no show Sun 5/5Theater & Performance
Sheila Callaghan's intricately woven drama doesn't waste any time. The first act—set in 1980, when an American woman arrives at the Aegean villa of a former lover and his current wife—unleashes so many startling revelations that a theatergoer might spend intermission wondering if there are any surprises left. There are. Callaghan's conceit is to race ahead through a scene's possible outcomes, and then reset the action without comment. At times this annoys, telling us things that ought to be implied. But mostly it works, lifting the veil on a cruel, beautiful set of relationships that could come straight out of Aeschylus. Ronan Marra directs a powerful four-person cast for Signal Ensemble Theatre. —Keith Griffith $15-$20
