But I had a lot of fun failing to figure the whole thing out, as the two women - embodied by Philadelphia performance artists Karen Getz and Kelly Jennings, both of whom look great in hoopskirts - cajoled, if not cudgeled, an audience of 13. That's about as many as they can accommodate in their hour-long show, in which they interview us about the basics of our supernatural belief systems, then run with what we say to make some points about our culture. (Although what they are, I can't explain either. I am pretty dense, it turns out, when it comes to paranormal and quantum theory.)
It's all quirky, good fun, drifting through concepts with these two characters in a show whose loose framework imposes some order on what's otherwise improvisation, produced by the Philadelphia Joke Initiative.
Getz and Jennings are hard to pigeonhole as artists; both work with the local Comedy–Sportz group and also on main stages, and Getz is everything from a choreographer to an experimenter with robots as possible artistic colleagues. They synch well together as Cecily and Gwendolyn. If you didn't know the piece was a goof you'd think it was a quantum entanglement.
- Howard Shapiro
$15. 8 p.m. Sept. 16; 8 and 11:30 p.m. Sept. 17. Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th St.
Dirty Laundry. Secret Room Theatre keeps it simple with Dirty Laundry: five short plays, each related in some way - either literally or figuratively - to the show title. Thus, Alex Dremann's saga of "Sally Sock," relegated to a British laundromat's single sock bin, shares the stage with "Running Amuck" (sic), Quinn D. Eli's look at a professional athlete doing what pros do: get caught on tape in an extramarital orgy.
