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Article: Twisted trip through the looking glass
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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CHELSEA - Anthony Neilson, a proud member of Great Britain's "in
yer face" school of playwright-provocateurs, has offered his own
succinct synopsis of "The Wonderful World of Dissocia," which
debuted at the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival and is now
enjoying an edgy regional premiere under Danielle Fauteux Jacques's
direction at the Apollinaire Theatre Company.
"If you like `Alice in Wonderland,' but there's not enough sex
and violence in it," he has boasted, "then `Dissocia' is the show
for you."
Then again, if Alice's anxiety-fraught descent into the land of
topsy-turvy logic strikes you as plenty disturbing already, you
might find yourself in over your head.
Lisa Jones (played by ...