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The Golfer
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About the show
The Brick and Gemini CollisionWorks present the story of a golfer who is hit by lightning and thrust into a surreal alternate world. More…
Flynn, an office worker, has one weekly escape from his dreary life: golf. But a stray lightning bolt to his driver transforms his routine into a surreal journey through an alternate, absurd underworld. There he is confronted by figures from his life, history, and fiction, including Charlemagne, the Tooth Fairy, and Abe Lincoln. As he struggles to understand the rules of this new reality, he is pursued, seduced, threatened, and ultimately judged by these icons.
"A gleefully out-there dark comedy...The one-act play moves at a much-brisker pace than golf. So you don't have time to get your bearings or get bored, either. Even sequences that sound moronic, like three puppet castrati gonads crooning a lament about their fate, turn out to be a riot thanks to ...
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"The play's style may be quick-cut sketch comedy, but its humanistic through-line visits a millennium of history, religion, literature, and sports commentary…Parks is a very funny writer. The fever dream of a liberal-arts major…'The Golfer' might be a sly commentary on the impending end-times...I...
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"Its blistering pace serves to keep any scene from dragging on too long, but conversely, it also prevents the audience from forming any real relationships with any of the recurring characters...There are some solid comedic exchanges, but I found myself wanting more...'The Golfer' is pure, fringe ...
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Woman Around Town
"The scenes and characters that unfold are completely random, both in terms of who appears as well as what is said and it is as if we are being given a private Thespian tour of Flynn’s unconscious. It is a wildly imaginative and absurdly funny unconscious. Non-sequiturs abound and the laughs alon...
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