You Could Call It Theater of the Cabsurd: ‘Take Me Home’ Is for 3 in a Taxi, in Real Time
Neil GenzlingerFebruary 1, 2014: Driving in New York City is difficult enough. Imagine doing it while performing. That’s what Modesto Jimenez, a.k.a. Flako, does in Take Me Home, the theater world’s latest experiment in shaking up the traditional relationship among audience, performer and performance space. He plays a cabdriver named Ace, and the theater is Ace’s cab. A real cab, which holds three audience members at a time. He drives them on a journey through the city and through a slowly evolving story about a fare beater and an enigmatic woman, all the while observing traffic laws, stopping for jaywalkers and occasionally pulling over to let other drivers go by so he can keep the pace he needs to keep.
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