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TO DREAM OF TREES
Reviewed by Collin McConnell (August 25, 2013)
A cautionary folk fairy tale... It's like The Point meets The Labyrinth in a highly physical production of The Lorax. Without ever being too heavy-handed, this work grapples with the not-so-unrealistic apocalyptic vision of a world destroyed by selfishness. The sky is getting lower, the world is a mountain of garbage praised by all, and its inhabitants are mutated, cannibalistic garbage-insect-humans. And a young girl is having strange dreams...

WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT
Reviewed by Gianfranco Lentini (August 21, 2013)
“There’s nothing [everything] to be done” about Waiting for Waiting for Godot at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Written by Dave Hanson and directed by Alex Harvey, this piece is not an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot but an original and highly dignified new piece that finds its source material in Beckett’s work. Never having been a complete fan of Beckett or Waiting for Godot, I entered the Kraine Theatre throwing caution to the wind but was instantaneously swept away from the moment the production began.

THE MAGIC MIRROR
Reviewed by Julie Congress (August 21, 2013)
The Magic Mirror, an opera with 14 singers and a live orchestra of seven (plus a conductor!), has a sound of a magnitude unlike any other FringeNYC show. Yet while an auditory powerhouse, the theatrical elements (staging, acting, etc.) do not live up to the music.

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