The Stranger

Critics across America and Europe have been hyperventilating about this New York company, named after a passage in Kafka's Amerika. Their No Dice is a four-hour experiment in the transcendent mundane, with text drawn from recorded telephone conversations. The gestures—plucked from videos of street magicians, people dancing in clubs, and a Slovak woman telling a story—are organized using a deck of playing cards. The actors also play a game with each other, using 13 positions taken from melodrama. The New York Times called No Dice "rare" and "wondrous." This is its Seattle debut. (On the Boards off-site performance, 1100 Eastlake Ave E, fifth floor, 217-9888. 7 pm, $24. March 5–8.) by Brendan Kiley

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