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Article: WOOSTER GROUP PUTS ON QUITE THE RACKET WITH ``BIRDIE!''.(U)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2002
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Byline: Evan Henerson Theater Critic
THE BIRDIE in ``To You, the Birdie!'' is a reference to a badminton shuttlecock, not the raised middle finger L.A. motorists employ with such abandon, although audiences at the Freud Playhouse might be pardoned for thinking the New York-based Wooster Group is flipping us off.
``Birdie!'' - completing its U.S. tour at UCLA - is anything but viewer- friendly. It's loud, jarring, affected beyond measure and seriously selndulgent. Technically masterful and possessed of all the group's signature sound and video frippery, the production suggests we may be closer to the age of video game as theater than anyone ever ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Wooster Group, The
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...Wooster Group, The (New York). A small artists ... this offshoot has been known as the Wooster Group since 1980. It often performs in ... As a co‐founder of the Wooster Group, she began writing as well as directing ...
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