From Fringe 2024

Divorce Club

TBA Productions—John Hirsch Mainstage

TBA Productions offered up a scenario primed for camp and dry wit, but unfortunately didn’t quite hit the mark. A club of divorced women who meet to throw darts at photos of their ex-husbands and drink cheap wine are thrown curveball after curveball when a new member joins their ranks. All I wish is that they had leaned harder into the absurd. So many possibilities for humor fell flat in the face of commitment from the cast, or potentially poor directorial choices. Despite questionable and irrelevant character choices, and 2×4 acting, this piece had the potential to be a fun, absurdist comedy. I wish I could say it was.

Arden Pruden

From Fringe 2024

Divorce Club

TBA Productions—John Hirsch Mainstage

This poor cast was done a grave disservice by being given the main stage. The cavernous theatre swallowed them up, making them very difficult to hear at times. Apart from that, if you’re a fan of bitter and jaded characters being confronted by their biases and double-standards, and/or if you like the level of off-the-wall twists that Liz Farler is known for by this point, definitely check it out. Just choose your seating very carefully so that you can catch all the dialogue.

Jordan Phillips