Justin Tanner's Day Drinkers and Cody Henderson's Wonderlust
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Despite the passions flying fast and furious around the bar, these people have as much calculation as teacher Goodspeed in Wonderlust has conviction.
That calculation is hardly news, but the way Tanner enmeshes it so subtly into romanticism makes it a sly novelty. If you read between the lines and the laughs, there's a fury at work, a rage at cold-hearted self-interest that is, and always was, the driving engine of most societies. The rest is garbage, and few writers can satirize garbage with Tanner's skill.
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Theatre of NOTE
1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Category: Theaters
Region: Hollywood
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It's hard to tell if the balance between comedy and anger that so delicately keeps insight from teetering into petulance comes as much from the writing as from DeLorenzo's taut staging.
As comedy ensembles go, the eight actors are like the well-oiled cylinders in a fine old gas-guzzling Caddie, blowing smoke in our eyes, masking roadkill and other horrors of the highway.
WONDERLUST | By Cody Henderson | Presented by Theatre of NOTE, 1517 Cahuenga Blvd., Hlywd. | Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. | Through Oct. 1 | (323) 856-8611 | theatreofnote.com
DAY DRINKERS | By Justin Tanner | Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., W.L.A. | Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. (added perfs Wed., Sept. 21, and Oct. 5, 8 p.m.) | Through Oct. 9 | (310) 477-2055 | odysseytheatre.com
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