Out of Iceland
Opening Night: March 24, 2012
Closing: April 22, 2012
Theater: Walkerspace
In Out of Iceland,Caroline Miller, an established writer from New York, is at a loss for words when she falls off an Icelandic volcano and awakes on the couch of a complete stranger. Hal Tanker is the misplaced cowboy in charge of the grounds who nurses her back to health. Then there’s Thor, Iceland’s flamboyant troll who crawled out of the television one night to warn her about something – or did she imagine that? When their truck mysteriously disappears in the middle of "The Middle," Hal and Caroline must face their biggest fears in a long night in one of the most mystical places on earth.
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April 10, 2012
There’s a chuckle every 10 or so minutes in the romantic comedy “Out of Iceland,” at Walkerspace. You’ll know that because you’ll check your watch often, wondering how much longer the play, with barely 20 minutes worth of plot, will try to stretch its running time. (Answer: an hour and a half.)
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April 4, 2012
At one point during “Out of Iceland,” Lea DeLaria, playing a male troll named Thor, steps onstage in a swan outfit and belts out “Bali Hai” in Icelandic.
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Director Josh Hecht has neatly split Drew Larimore’s play “Out of Iceland” into two distinct—and stylistically opposed—halves. The more engaging half is a tender romance between an Icelandic cowboy and a visiting historian, who meet on the edge of a volcano in Askja, Iceland. The second half involves Lea DeLaria as a magical “hidden person” named Thor, who sings “Bali Hai” in Icelandic.
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April 2, 2012
Drew Larimore’s Out of Iceland, now at Walkerspace under Josh Hecht’s direction, opens promisingly with an animated Lea DeLaria dragging the set downstage amidst screens shaped as glacial pieces of ice. Miniature houses hang above to suggest the small town of Askja in the central highlands of Iceland where the play is set.
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March 29, 2012
In the comedy-folklore mash-up Out of Iceland, presented at walkerspace by Alfred R. Kahn in association with Culture Project, Caroline, an American writer with a painful secret, is compelled by the story of two lost explorers to visit Askja, Iceland. At the top of the show, she has literally fallen into a volcano and has been rescued by a cowboy named Hal. Caroline is running from her past, Hal is hiding from his, but the spirit of Iceland has plans for this pair, and sends Thor, a magical, mischievous troll-type being referred to in the play as one of the “hidden people,” to make sure that they comply.
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