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...heart filled with happiness. Inside my head, bells were pealing with joy as a song began: "Ding dong, the witch is dead...
Sure Thing, the opening playlet, is 40 cunning variations on meeting cute. A young man approaches a young woman seated at a restaurant table. Every time he or she says something clumsy or frosty a bell rings (ding!), the actors freeze and the process ratchets back a step. Movie-wise playgoers with a sense of deja vu will wonder if this isn't Groundhog Day all over again. Well, worry not about Ives' originality or his consistency. Sure Thing was first seen in 1988, five years before the Bill Murray comedy. Further, all six of the Timing pieces are ingenious...
Perhaps Ives will make bigger bottles -- longer plays -- with the same effervescence he compresses into this six-pack. Meantime, here is an evening of great pleasure and promise. How delicious, in these dour theater days of revivals and stillbirths, to have something to look forward to -- again (ding!) and again (ding!) and again (blackout...
...play deals with Ding Dong the Monkey and his Amazing Circus, and what happens to the fragile hierarchy of power within this little community when Ding Dong dies...
...Ding Dong, an original play by Elijah Aron, brought a circus, complete with tent and side show freaks, to the Loeb Ex last weekend. Aron, a veritable Jack of All Trades, also directed, designed and performed the title song for this piece...