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The Best Theater of 2024
Waterfront history staged afloat, a variety of robots, and Mary Todd Lincoln going wild.
Meanwhile, Lipton’s robot informed us that we could trust the extent of his data storage, considering that he’s read every Wikipedia entry “as well as every digitized novel — except for My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, which I hear is great.” He also introduced us to his Grandpa Morrie, a sentient Roomba, and shared some of the ways he’s learned to process and replicate human emotion. I just thought we were talking about … you know … IP?”) In the uniformly excellent ensemble, Will Dagger stood out as a mustachioed, self-pitying horse (one of the creatures from Alina’s fantasy-verse) and as the manipulator and maniacal voice behind an ever-growing fleet of goldfish puppets, designed by Greg Corbino and somehow cute, hilarious, and fearsome all at once. I was lucky enough to see a performance at the eponymous hour, and filing into Fort Greene’s old Irondale space early on a Saturday in January, with the cold high light streaming from the stained-glass windows and people stamping their feet as they greeted each other at folding tables of coffee, tea, and biscuits — it was all enough to renew one’s faith.
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