“Schaal describes ‘KLII’ as ‘an exorcism, in theater.’ This implies a certain amount of release, but even in its intimate, more directly autobiographical second half, the show does not deliver, or even aim for, easy catharsis.”
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“I frankly don't know what to say about a piece that embraces a subject so pregnant with meaning yet remains so utterly opaque.”
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The failed extended scene in “KLII” that combines three intellectual texts about King Leopold II is especially exasperating because the other half of the 65-minute production is so theatrically inviting and emotionally memorable….a slyly constructed and startling monologue pairing the personal, often loving and lovely, with the global, often monstrous
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