![]() As for Nick (Mike Iveson), besides teaching, his not-so-secret hobby consists in writing mpreg (male pregnancy) slash fiction about the Twilight saga, fantasizing carrying the child of a vampire. ![]() Vin Knight’s histrionics and extravagant Southern Belle accent come through as both tribute to and parody of the masterpieces of American drama. In fact, in Elevator Repair Service’s version, all characters are deeply engaged with literature: George now teaches the plays of Tennessee Williams and willfully indulges in late-night bombastic renditions of famous monologues delivered to a reluctant audience. Very aptly labeled “meta to the max” by New York Times critic 2 Ben Brantley, this spunky feminist variation on Albee’s text unashamedly posits hyper-referentiality as a source of theatrical delight. Catering to the learned theater buff, the play invites its audience to yield to the tangled web (or as Albee would say “wangled teb” 1 ) of intertextual allusions woven by playwright Kate Scelsa. Bigsby in A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century Ame (.)ġ7 More than a decade after the premiere of Gatz, their seven-hour long take on The Great Gatsby, New York based ensemble Elevator Repair Service digs at Edward Albee’s iconic 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
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