If You Flirt With Danger, It Just Might Come Calling
Laura Collins-HughesOctober 28, 2014: If she’d wanted an apron to match her Anthrax T-shirt, she could have gotten it from that band’s official merchandise site: a black cotton number, meant for use at the barbecue grill. But baking is more Bets’s style, and when she takes a break from her death-metal blog to whip up a batch of calzones, she wraps herself in a sweet, girly apron decorated in polka dots and roses. In Nora Sorena Casey’s Not Afraid, having its premiere in a PowerOut production at Under St. Marks, Bets (an impressive Taylor Shurte) is a post-collegiate waif with dark-rimmed eyes and a widow’s peak. Though she spends most of her time at her laptop, obsessing over bands with names like Napalm Death and Deathbound, there is a charming ebullience to her passion. It might be healthy, however, if she would occasionally leave the house. “Your world is tiny, and it’s all in your brain,” says her roommate, Hunter (Anna Van Valin), a beer-swilling law student, and that’s truer than she knows.
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