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“A Small Fire” Ignites Mysterious Passions—at Shotgun Players

“A Small Fire” Ignites Mysterious Passions—at Shotgun Players

Adam Bock Provokes Us with a Proud Woman’s Fate by Edward Boyda With “A Small Fire,” playwright Adam Bock challenges us—characters, actors, and audience alike—to face the possibility of sudden, unthinkable affliction. Covid has not struck the intimate suburban New York world depicted here. “A Small Fire” debuted in 2011. The strange malady that…

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“Arcadia” Paints a Bleak, Loveless Future, at Shotgun Players, Berkeley

“Arcadia” Paints a Bleak, Loveless Future, at Shotgun Players, Berkeley

When we can keep up with them, the characters dazzle with their wit. They recite poetry. They ponder, to nihilistic ends, Newtonian determinism, the new science of thermodynamics, and the mathematics of grouse populations, derived from centuries of records in the game book, a.k.a., Things on the Estate That Have Been Shot. They fuck, they cheat, they plan to duel. (The action stays wholly off stage.)