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APR 3, 2009
'Closer' THEATER
'Closer'

Balagan's Closer is faithful to the script in the sense that it is easy to grasp and consume. It offers no real challenges, difficulties, or profundities, but explores the surface of life in London at the end of the 20th century in the way a lover explores the flesh of a beautiful and aroused woman. What we see in the four characters—Larry the doctor, Alice the stripper, Dan the writer, Anna the photographer—is our decade in its infancy. There is nothing new about cheating on your partner; there is, however, something very new about starting a relationship with someone you meet on the internet. Closer is just the right play for a first date. (Balagan Theatre, 1117 E Pike St, 800-838-3006. 8 pm, $20. Through April 4.) by Brendan Kiley

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Then again, maybe all you see is the monkey do part of the no Disney dialouge in last nights National Security A team script review notes from Fremont # 12.

Theater in the making or screen plays in the baking... something somewhere has got to give...

and then again, possibly someone just needs time to quirm over the scene and grossness of axe murdering pysco-drama games of pick your own title department.
Posted by dan kieneker on April 3, 2009 at 11:14 AM · Report
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The relationships in Closer are bitter and deceptive. It is only a good play for a first date if you want to see if your would-be partner has the palate to stick around after witnessing horrific displays of monogamy gone sour.
Posted by get away from me on April 3, 2009 at 2:30 PM · Report

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