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The Land Whale Murders Is A Whale Of A Tale and The Tale Of A Whale

by 4 Cents Reviews on December 14, 2010

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4 Cents Review – When 2 reviewers each give their 2 cents.

Today it takes both Tortora-Lees (Karen and Stephen) to give The Land Whale Murders the consideration it deserves.

For those of you who have already had the opportunity to experience a play by writer Jonathan A. Goldberg (such as The Luck of the Ibis) you’ll no doubt know what I mean when I say that it’s as if Goldberg lets both hands write two plays independently of each other simultaneously – one fully right brain, the other fully left – and then allows his subconscious to stitch  them together till it all makes sense.  This is his gift – this is where he succeeds when others fail.  And this is why The Land Whale Murders is both difficult to describe, yet impossible to forget.

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Last Life Just Won’t Die – And That’s A Good Thing

by Karen Tortora-Lee on March 1, 2010

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Last Life is the fightsical from Timothy Haskell (creator of Road House: The Stage Play) and Eric Sanders (The Wendigo), and stars Taimak (of the legendary fight film The Last Dragon).  The title is proving to be about as accurate a title as “Cher’s Final Farewell Tour” because this show has been revived more times than Britany Spear’s reputation  – and I couldn’t be happier for the whole creative team.

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Fight Fest: Wham, Bam, Thank You “Last Life”

by Karen Tortora-Lee on December 18, 2009

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I’ve been a fan of Eric Sanders’ ever since I interviewed him last year and then reviewed his staging of the classic horror story The Wendigo.  And while that first show certainly gave me a taste for how great his talents are, I was very excited about getting the chance to see Last Life - one of his original works.  Chatting with Timothy Haskell recently about Fight Fest only made me more eager to see not just a play, but an amalgam of story and combat, something they christened “the fightsical”.

Everything leading up to Last Life did not prepare me for what I actually experienced that night in the theatre; and while there are a lot of things one could say about the show, very little would do it justice.

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