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...personal calamities of illness and grief. Actors vary from the well-established (Redgrave, three-time Tony Award winner Irene Worth and Regina Taylor of TV's I'll Fly Away) to the + succes d'estime (Eric Bogosian, Anna Deavere Smith) to the yearning-for- discovery (Sherry Glaser, Claudia Shear, Barnaby Spring). Some play a multitude of characters, some just one, and several basically play themselves. Some, like Spalding Gray, who in January finished a return engagement on Broadway and is coming back in June, devote themselves principally to the solo form. Others, like John Leguizamo, who was named last season...
...have twenty dollars to spare (twenty six on weekends) and have always thought of yourself as Nancy Drew or one of the Hardy boys, go see Shear Madness. After all, it's in the Guinness...
...play poses--literally--the obvious question: whodunit? Was it the queen, the lady in waiting, the grande dame, or the suspicious antiquarian? The right answer is any of the above. Shear Madness asks the audience to reconstruct the events, interrogate the suspects, and vote on the assassin. The ending of the play is democratically determined. Interactive theater, no less...
...Shear Madness has been running continuously for ten years in Boston and has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running non-musical play in the country). It is playing simultaneously in six other American cities not to mention Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Budapest and Melbourne. The play relies on two gimmicks: setting the action in the city and year in which it is playing and populating it with local caricatures and spontaneous humor. These ideas keep the ten-year-old act from becoming dated, as recent events are constantly mentioned--everyone from Nancy Kerrigan...
More than anything else, this play rests on the assumption that everyone--not just your roommate--wants to feel more insightful and intelligent than those around. Shear Madness gives everyone and their mother (and roommate) the chance to enact Sherlock Holmes fantasies...