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Posted Sep. 12, 2008,
Stage Notes: Anger/Nation
By Tom Murrin
Radiohole is back, and The Kitchen has them. Yes, there are other anarchistic, madcap theater groups, and I love them all, but Radiohole always seems to go further to do something on stage that you won’t see anywhere else. Like in Fluke, where they effectively did most of the show sightless, with eyeballs painted on their closed eyelids. Or the endless chicken-eating and beer-guzzling scene in another. In any event, their shows are not to be missed. They are futuristically theatrical and grounded in hard work, grit and the pure fun of performance. This one, Anger/Nation is about the erotic cult filmmaker, Kenneth Anger (Scorpio Rising), and the hatchet-wielding, barroom-busting, temperance prohibitionist, Carrie Nation. I spoke with Eric Dyer and Maggie Hoffman on speakerphone. Scott Halvorsen Gillette rounds out Radiohole, and Iver Findlay is the special guest performer.
I love the title. I thought it referred to the emotional state of the U.S.
Eric Dyer: The essence of the show is this very bizarre and sensory world that’s coming out of this Kenneth Anger film, The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1959), about a hedonistic side to us; that is, people in general, and you can apply that any way you want.