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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

by Hannah Frishberg on March 30, 2011

in Teen Reviews,Theater

30 plays in 60 minutes. Can you handle it????

The New York Neo-Futurist’s Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is sixty minutes of wonderful. A jumble of crude language, Easter suits, stereotypes, pop culture references, and spaghetti molded into thirty plays, this show is what would happen if Charlie Sheen and Sarah Palin were blended together and sold as a low-fat fruit drink at an organic Mormon flea market: mind boggling. Yet, despite the actor’s entertaining antics and the ridiculous sketch titles (“Kevin and the Anthropomorphized Key-tar”), the production still conveys a humanitarian feel, a comforting moral of human cohesion through a common insanity.

Innovative from the start, to purchase tickets at the door the Neo-Futurists have you role a die and add that number to eleven, the sum being the cost of your ticket (unless you have a High 5 voucher!). [click to continue…]

Tagged as: New York Neo-Futurists, The Krane Theater, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

by Cynthia Dunston on August 21, 2010

in Teen Reviews,Theater

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes.  30 plays, ranging from happy to sad to slightly odd and confusing to a beautiful work of performance art, that The New York Neo-Futurists have written themselves.  Titles include: “a play for Tina Howe,” “apple and anger,” “inquisition,” “mad libs booty am free style for you,” and… 26 more.  The Neo’s are energetic acting group and from the very beginning, they set out to make you a part of their excitement.

The audience was fully interactive throughout the show, being able to choose the order of the plays by shouting a out a number from 1 to 30 from the list of plays, or menu, that they gave us (every play has a number).  Audience members were pulled up on stage to dance with the cast, to fill in blanks to a song, or a cast member would go have a short conversation with a member of the audience.  (Don’t be shy when you go!) [click to continue…]

Tagged as: Kraine Theater, New York Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

by Dalia Wolfson on March 17, 2009

in Theater

When you first spot the KGB Bar, you may be slightly taken aback. In fact, craning your neck to try to see over the girl whose hat looks like a monster that’s eating her head, you may even doubt that it’s the the right address. But soon enough, a young lady will poke her head out from a doorway above the stairs and scream “Hey! Are you guys all here for Too Much Light?” — and you’ll know this is it. [click to continue…]

Tagged as: Kraine Theater, New York Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind

by Tina Kuo on March 8, 2009

in Theater

If you have trouble sitting through a play without falling asleep or thinking of something else, then Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is the perfect play for you. Actually, it’s 30 plays fit into 60 minutes, so you won’t even have time to fall asleep because each play lasts at most 3 minutes.

Too Much Light… is performed by the New York Neo-Futurists every Friday and Saturday night at 10:30 PM at the Kraine Theater. The show is engaging and interactive from the start. [click to continue…]

Tagged as: Kraine Theater, New York Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

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