THREE REVIEWS IN SEARCH OF A READER

posted by James Reel

No wonder I had a theater-critic dream a couple of nights ago—I’ve been spending a lot of time watching plays. In today’s Tucson Weekly, I cover three productions:

In any play, it ultimately comes down to who controls the character. In Luigi Pirandello's _Six Characters in Search of an Author_, currently enjoying an insightful production from Rogue Theatre, the characters are famously on the loose, looking for someone to help them shape their story—preferably without those pesky intermediaries called actors. At Invisible Theatre, _Dixie's Tupperware Party_ allows the author to bring the character he's created—his alter ego?—to rambunctious life himself. Meanwhile, Arizona Theatre Company has mounted a lovely, amusing and touching play whose main character has been pushed in a direction that the story does not warrant. …

Learn the awful truth here.