Fire Island Fracas
A nasty storm forces a motley group to face each other — and themselves
BY DAVID KENNERLEY
Now that the mammoth New York
Fringe Fest has vanished from the
summer theatrical landscape, others
are valiantly trying to fi ll the void.
Enter the fl edgling Rave Theater Festival, a collection
of 20 shows held at the Clemente Soto
Velez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side,
produced by Tony Award-winner Ken Davenport.
And if “Stormy Weather,” one of the bold,
scrappy entrants, is a reliable barometer, the
Rave Festival promises to be a worthy successor.
The comic drama is written by Michael
MacKenzie Wills and directed by Jacob Demlow.
A throwback to madcap sex farces from the
1960s and ‘70s, the loopy play, spiked with gratuitous
nudity and sexual acts within earshot if
not visible onstage, is set during the height of a
fi erce storm on a nearly deserted island.
In this case, it is Fire Island in late September,
THEATER
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ey each r them
Tim Burke and Dillion Everett in Michael MacKenzie’s “Stormy
Weather,” directed by Jacob Demlow at Ken Davenport’s Rave
Theater Festival at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center through
August 25.
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Noah Pyzik, Michael O. Tubman, and Charles Manning in “Stormy
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