Review: Washington Post Calls Playwright Lola B. Pierson ’05 and Acme Corporation’s “Play in a Box” a “Delight”

Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. “I was tickled when the box arrived in the mail from Baltimore’s sharp little experimental company the Acme Corporation,” writes the Washington Post’s Peter Marks. “The group, led by Artistic Director Lola B. Pierson, sent me—and you can get one, too—a literal play in a box: a do-it-in-your-own-time delight titled The Institute for Counterfeit Memory. All it requires is a performance space (the top of a kitchen table), about 25 minutes and a longing for the days, now zooming rapidly into the past, when you could sit in a packed little theater and let some smart new entertainment wash over you. … The Institute for Counterfeit Memory cannily employs the devices it provides to bring you back to the feeling of being in a room with other spectators, even as it reminds you that you are alone. Its ministrations so impressed me that when I turned over the final cue card instructing me to applaud, I actually did.”

 

Post Date: 09-24-2020