Tête-à-Tête Offensive: Tender Napalm and The Carolina Layaway Grail, reviewed.
Chris Klimek
Laura C. Harris and Elan Zafir in Tender Napalm (Teresa Wood)
In one of the the shows at Signature Theatre right now, a woman (named "Woman") tells a man ("Man") in precise, step-by-step detail how she plans to sever his penis and scrotum.
In the theater next door, Beaches: The Musical is playing. Six of one...
I review Philip Ridley's Tender Napalm in this week's Washington City Paper. Plus Allyson Currin's The Carolina Layaway Grail, the inaugural production from DC playwriting collective The Welders.
Why yes, I am fairly pleased with the hed, thanks. It's one of the very few times I've ever managed to top my editor (and Heds Will Roll Tumblr proprietr) Jon Fischer's suggestion, which is on Heds Will Roll now though it's far more tasteful than mine. Then he came back and nailed the photo caption, so.