In a Double Bill of Physical Comedy, Laughter Is the Best Reflex
Jesse GreenNovember 1, 2017:
Let’s say you’ve got a toothache or a crumbling political system and aren’t in the mood to laugh.
Tough luck. You’re going to laugh anyway.
According to the oddball double bill of “Marcel” and “The Art of Laughter” that opened on Wednesday at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, it isn’t up to you. The two one-hour offerings presented by Theater for a New Audience posit and then set out to prove — the first in slapstick form, the second in a kind of TED Talk — that laughter is a predictable, reproducible, inescapable reflex.
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