Idiot Savant
Opening Night: November 5, 2009
Closing: December 13, 2009
Theater: The Public Theater
This new work is a philosophical comedy, in the great tradition of Ionesco and Preston Sturges. From precise existential and metaphysical acrobatics, to a ridiculous game of inter-species golf with a Giant Duck, Idiot Savant is a fresh, bracing and hilarious exploration of the boundaries of the legitimate.
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November 5, 2009
"The disembodied voice, sounding like God with a hangover, lets us know in detail what we are about to receive. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the voice rumbles by way of a preshow announcement for Richard Foreman’s “Idiot Savant,” a play that is some kind of wonderful. “In the course of this evening’s performance the following objects will appear onstage.”
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