Total Rating: 
***1/2
Opened: 
November 15, 1990
Ended: 
Closed
Country: 
USA
State: 
Illinois
City: 
Chicago
Company/Producers: 
Torso Theater
Theater Type: 
Regional
Theater: 
Torso Theater
Theater Address: 
2837 North Broadway (Diversey)
Phone: 
(312) 549-3330
Running Time: 
2 hrs, 15 min
Genre: 
Satirical Comedy
Author: 
Billy Bermingham
Director: 
Billy Bermingham
Review: 

Set in a future "sooner than you think," Bermingham's warning to an America on the brink of self-destruction leaves no taboo unviolated, punctuated by flying body fluids, copious "sim-sex", and up-to-the-minute topical commentary.  This zap-splat-boom brand of satire may be too much for the weak of heart (or stomach), but at a time when so many artists claiming to be "daring" and "outrageous" shrink from anything approaching extreme, Torso Theater at least has the courage to walk as it talks.  If you don't see this with your own eyes, you'll never believe it when you read about it in theater history books twenty years hence. 

Parental: 
nudity, sexual themes, violence
Other Critics: 
THIS MONTH ON STAGE David Lefkowitz +
Critic: 
Mary Shen Barnidge
Date Reviewed: 
1993