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Review of “Fuddy Meers”

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Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 2:42 pm
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer

“Stability,” according to one of the characters lost in the funhouse that is “Fuddy Meers,” “is a fragile figurine.”

That figurine gets smashed to smithereens in the first few seconds of David Lindsay-Abaire’s farcical black comedy, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Press, Reviews Tagged With: Midwestern Theater Troupe, Odeum Theatre

Review: ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ by Odeum Theatre Company

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By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer on Mar 14, 2012, at 2:02 AM Updated on 3/14/12 at 3:00 AM

Maybe two halves do make a whole: David A. Lawrence and Dara Allen star in Odeum Theatre Company's production of "Gruesome Playground Injuries," playing at the Nightingale Theater. Courtesy

Maybe two halves do make a whole: David A. Lawrence and Dara Allen star in Odeum Theatre Company’s production of “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” playing at the Nightingale Theater. Courtesy

What else would a play titled “Gruesome Playground Injuries” be but a love story?

Granted, it’s an unusual love story – one played out over 30 years, with most of the meetings between the two people involved taking place in medical facilities, their lives measured in the scars on their skins and on their souls.

Odeum Theatre Company makes its return to Tulsa stages with its production of this Rajiv Joseph play, which opened Thursday at the Nightingale Theater. [Read more…]

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Tulsa’s Odeum Theater Company offering ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’

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By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer on Mar 9, 2012, at 2:27 AM Updated on 3/09/12 at 5:27 AM

Maybe two halves do make a whole: David A. Lawrence and Dara Allen star in Odeum Theatre Company's production of "Gruesome Playground Injuries," playing at the Nightingale Theater. Courtesy

Maybe two halves do make a whole: David A. Lawrence and Dara Allen star in Odeum Theatre Company’s production of “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” playing at the Nightingale Theater. Courtesy


Rajiv Joseph’s play “Gruesome Playground Injuries” has a cast of two.

Odeum Theatre Company’s production of this play – the company’s first show since April 2011 – has three directors.

Sara Phoenix, one of the directors, said the original reason for this rather unusual division of labor was a practical one – to accommodate the personal schedules of the personnel involved. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Press, Previews Tagged With: Odeum Theatre

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