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Review by James Wilkinson

don’t feed the bear – Written and performed by Cam Torres. Directed by Alex Lonati. Lighting Design by Connor O’Brien. Presented by Brown Box Theatre March 15-17, 2019 at Atlantic Wharf in Boston and March 22-24, 2019 at Ocean City Center for the Arts in Ocean City.

Brown Box Theatre’s new production, don’t feed the bear, tells the story of Will. Or rather, it would, but Will doesn’t exist. Except that he might exist. By the end of the play it certainly seems like he might exist and I think I can build a pretty convincing case that he does. That might be a misdirection though, much like the laptop he’s working on. Let me explain. The laptop exists, but it’s not real. None of this is real. You might want it to be real, but that’s too bad. None of this is real. That much you can know for certain; none of this is real. None of this is necessary. The title of the show isn’t even relevant to what’s happening on stage. (Except that I think it might be…)

by Mike Hoban

The Hotel Nepenthe – Written by John Kuntz; Directed by Alex Lonati; Presented by The Brown Box Theatre March 2-11 at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St., Boston; March 15^th at Ella Fitzgerald Center for Performing Arts at U of Maryland at Eastern Shore; March 16^th at The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St., Milton, DE; and March 17-18 at the Ocean City Center for the Arts, Ocean City, MD.

If you weren’t able to catch Brown Box Theatre’s wildly entertaining production of John Kuntz’ The Hotel Nepenthe at the Atlantic Wharf space, perhaps you can escape the snow and drive to Maryland/Delaware area to catch its final four performances this weekend (see above). And if you’re a fan of absurd (but remarkably coherent) theater, it just might be worth the trip. Kuntz weaves a series of imaginative vignettes – loosely centered around the upscale hotel of the play’s title – into an intertwined whole, and the results are often awe-inspiring.

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