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I Want to Kill Lena Dunham

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Time Out says

Everything sucks right now for Nora (Shereen Macklin). She's been fired; her dad (a sweet Roland Sands) has lost his house; one of her roommates (Nicole Stoica) is kicking her out for not paying rent; the other (Susaye Lawson) can't help. Nora doesn't suffer quietly though. Instead, she unleashes her rage at targets near and far: Pinochet, George Zimmerman, her college loans, subprime lenders. Her dominating obsession, though, is Lena Dunham, whose blinkered self-indulgence strikes Nora as pure villainy. (Nora's own vanity, entitlement and political inaction are, naturally, overlooked by the play.) Playwright-director Sergio Castillo may be playing an ironic game: In a play that asks us to focus on injustice rather than entertainment, his supposedly socially-enlightened mouthpiece-heroine fixates on a media darling. The trouble lay in Castillo's tendency to overwrite, and the way his palpable rage at Dunham's success keeps swamping the play's larger point. It's laudable that Castillo wants to take aim at the status quo, but you can't forge decent bullets out of sour grapes.—Helen Shaw

Click here for full Time Out New York coverage of the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.

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Event website:
fringenyc.org
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Contact:
917-745-3397
Price:
$18
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