"It’s an intellectually fascinating gambit...a crisis that proves to be a lot to handle"
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"The play defies description in its portrait of grief"
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"Mona Pirnot’s 'I Love You So Much I Could Die' is a closed, solipsistic box."
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"The use of the text reader here forces us to focus on the content of the play"
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"It is afflicted with a critical case of self-consciousness."
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"It feels cavernous; the material is too small to fill it."
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"Pirnot’s non-fictional narrative is the personal yet “Everyman” story of loneliness..."
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Pirnot’s performance—apart from her quiet, almost self-effacing singing—could itself be performed by a robot, so there’s no way to comment on it. On the other hand, the artificial voice has a kind of hypnotic effect that—because of its mechanical quality—lands a few funny remarks in a way that would likely have eluded a more committed human voice. All in all, though, this visually monotonous experimental performance—more an art installation than a play—sometimes found me drifting....
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