Word: absurdam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BIZARRENESS in Come and Go is of another sort. The three women are film positives. Elaborately costumed, they walk and sit and whisper as if they were snapshots from 1910, the play could be an existential joke, a reductio ad absurdam of both comedy and farce. As the three characters, Kathy Bybee, Immy Humes, and Ilana DeBare seem ready to play their parts for laughs. One is haughty, another childlike, the third cute. But all aspects of the five-minute-long play are commendably understated, from the grey lighting to the long poses. It is understandable that a serious minded...
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