Word: fitched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fitch himself gives a stunning performance, most notably as the surreal singer/TV announcer. He is hilarious, truly strange and apparently in his element. As the man who makes the monkey puppet dance, Fitch is captivating and wonderful...
...Sweating Door Alarm is a wonderful, bizarre piece of drama. Director Douglas Fitch has created a montage of different realities, using the stage to his best advantage. As the curtain rises, the audience faces a wall of television windows, each containing an animated actor. These actors struggle to burst out of the strict confines of the screens. In much the same way, The Sweating Door Alarm challenges the confines of the stage on which it takes place...
...Sweating Door Alarm moves smoothly and frequently between planes of reality. Fitch transports the audience from a strange, sickening hospital to an eerie campground in a Southwestern canyon. Soon the campground is overrun with Indians who dance wildly around a TV set/campfire, taking the viewer farther and farther from reality. The transitions from scene to scene are always surprising and often funny. Although simple curiosity about what will come next sustains a lively interest in a play, The Sweating Door Alarm offers much more...
...strange scenes believable and even enjoyable. For example, a group of giggly creatures, resembling Dr. Seuss characters, watch a stuffed animal conduct a symphony. This is a moment of supreme humor and invention, and the viewer wants to accept this scene because it is so ingenious and hysterically funny. Fitch makes wonderful use of the bizarre atmosphere he has created...
...Fitch, who also designs houses and furniture, makes the set and props an integral part of The Sweating Door Alarm. For example, the gray wall which serves as a backdrop is used to the fullest. Initially a wall of TV screens, it is transformed into a starry sky, covered in tin foil and used as an elevator. This set does not overwhelm the audience, but coaxes them into believing...