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Article: Heavy Metal Playground
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- October 5, 2005
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IT ARRIVED TODAY: the new ramp. It's part of a big low wooden platform lined with slick black synthetic padding, and it sits in one corner of a former North Oakland rubber-band plant, close by the see-saw and the church-door-sized steel plate propped against a fat column.
The dancers of Attack Theatre are figuring out how to incorporate the ramp into their new show. Perceiving the set as an oversized tot lot, Jeff Davis finds one possible way: You can slide on it.
The two seconds it takes Davis to glide from the top of the ramp to the floor might be all Attack Theatre needs to add a new wrinkle to Games of Steel. The ambitious production returns the group to its roots in site-specific ...