The Conveniences Of Modern Living – Were You Just Kissing The Dryer? (Fringe Festival 2010)
by Karen Tortora-Lee on August 26, 2010
The Conveniences of Modern Living
You know your marriage is on the rocks when your husband would rather spend time with The Dryer than with you.
I’m not talking about any ordinary dryer, mind you, in Daniel John Kelley and Emily Plumb’s The Conveniences of Modern Living Jessica Love plays about a cute a dryer as you’d ever want to have in your home. She’s earnest, sweet, thoughtful, and yearning for the day when she can go back to Sweden – specifically the Ikea Factory – birthplace, homeland and nirvana. Till then, she’s trapped here. But you think she has it tough? Let me tell you a little about the other folks who live in the apartment she’s housed in . . .
