THE OBJECT LESSON at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

Photo by Craig Schwartz

Myron Meisel – Stage Raw

 Object Lesson, created and enacted by Geoff Sobelle, is a determinedly odd amalgam of performance art and clowning, an extended existential joke deploying self-aware empty gestures, obsessive materialism and well-established gags consciously stranded in the context of a litter-strewn vacuum. And yes, a desire to be loved. It’s as if a contemporary Emmett Kelly did an evening-long solo show, capped by the bottomless box trick. Read more…

Now running through October 4.