Fringe: The End of Hope, The End of Desire
Tiny Dynamite's "The End of Hope, the End of Desire" is funny, odd, and impossible to describe without giving it all away, says Toby Zinman.
I can't figure out how to tell you about Tiny Dynamite/Extreme Measures' The End of Hope, the End of Desire without giving it all away. David Ireland's little play is funny and odd. It takes place in Belfast, so politics and religion are always in the air.
It starts with two strangers (Corinna Burns and Jared Michael Delaney) in bed after sex; she's wearing a mouse mask. They lie to each other, confess to each other, berate themselves and each other; he gets out of bed, puts on his shoes, takes off his shoes, gets back into bed over and over again.
Burns and Delaney are actors of such subtlety that the characters' quirkiness seems completely convincing, although, surprisingly, their Irish accents come and go. Tom Reing directs.
---Toby Zinman
THE END OF HOPE, THE END OF DESIRE at Off Broad Street Theatre, 1636 Sansom St. Friday, Saturday and Sept. 21 @ 10 p.m.
