The New York International Fringe Festival is over, but the spirit is 2nd floor Black Box Theater Located on the edge of the clothing district. It says, “Ascending and Descending, then a brief and modest ascending, followed by a relative descent … Jean-Claude Van Damme, who shined with a single read of the Wikipedia page a few months ago.” There is a new program called. In the busy days of fringe joy, such as “Arcade Theater: Five Classic Video Games Adapted to the Stage” and “Harvey Finkelstein’s Sock Puppet Showgirl”.
The show announces itself in a vast way, but it’s a minimalist case: ex-B spoken by just two men using action figures procured from Amazon and then jury-rigged. A low-cost approximate biographical controllable doll of a movie action star. Again, it’s very fringe.
As the New York Times described him in 2007, the fact that the writer is Timothy Haskel, “one of the great Huslers of the downtown theater” is a lover of stage exploitation (I love to use it). I’m not surprised at the expression).A few years after that review, Haskell and the company Psycho clan It has cemented its position as an emperor in the immersive horror theater. The most famous is the “Nightmare” series of Halloween haunted houses, which are held every fall for 14 seasons. Back to October After a break. The quest for assault tactics for the Psycho clan peaked in 2017 with “This Is Real.” This is an escape experience where the audience was “kidnapped” by Red Hook.
But with “Rise and Fall,” Haskell returned to the lighter, goofy pop subculture vein that appeared on Off-Off-Broadway maps in the early 2000s. During that time, he produced works such as “Fatal Attraction” and “Fatal Attraction: Greek Tragedy” based on the movie in which Patrick Swayze played a bouncer. In this show, actors Joe Cordaro (Jean-Claude Van Damme, just a few of the other roles) and John Harlacher (mainly as narrators and ending in painfully relentless costumes) are in life. It only takes an hour to barrel through the work of the so-called Muscles in Brussels, which peaked in popularity in the late 1980s and mid-1990s.
Directed by Haskel, his brother Aaron and Paul Smithyman, Van Damme began his childhood martial arts training in Belgium and eventually moved to Hollywood to play ballet splits and athletic leaping kicks on VHS classics. Deployed. The era of “Universal Soldier,” “Double Impact,” and “Blood Sports.” Cordaro and Harlacher deploy stick puppets to advance the story and pull up their action figures (customized by Aaron Haskell) for the combat sequence. Most of them were dreamed of for the show, like the brawl between Van Damme and Steven Seagal that many 13-year-old boys would have wanted to see in 1995.
As the show title suggests, Haskell has little interest in digging under the surface to reveal the man behind the muscles. (For insight, some viewers may want to check out the 2008 Metavandam movie “JCVD”, which “the author of this play didn’t see because he was angry. However, despite the humor of the boy happily, Van Damme’s career has slowed down and he is portrayed as thanking Spot like a villain named Jean-Villan. As at times, melancholy arose.Expentables 2.. Recalling the childhood trauma, Haskel’s Van Damme swears: But I do. Or it was. But I don’t have time to stay long. There is always another battle on the horizon.
Ascending and Descending, then a brief and modest ascending followed by a relative descent … Junk Road Van Dam, fueled by a single read of the Wikipedia page a few months ago.
Until July 17th at the PIT Theater in Manhattan. thepit-nyc.com.. Execution time: 55 minutes.