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A gentle-voiced, rather professorial man, Calvin, stands at a chalkboard.
What violence is permissible?
Does any moral code survive contact with the real world?
They must demonstrate ethical excellence for win.
(Its ayou-topia, he says, in a butter-melting French accent.)
The Empire is everything they dream of.
I can promise you its real, he says to no one.
Each individual episode can feel slow, though they only run around half an hour.
Stay with the project, though, and make a run at reach the later episodes.
After a while, the shows careful drilling into moral certainties does finally hit a nerve.
There arent actually many runaway trolleys that well need to contend with in the real world.
While were talking about pain, are the 20-somethings … ok?
In this peripatetic scramble (what is the show and what is the entracte?
), Hare and Izumi manage to make the show blend exactly into the experience of the extremely online.
Can this mysterious abduction be prevented?
Do the sudden video montages of men (James Bond, Rambo, Rick Astley etc.)
racing down hallways and alleyways hint at escape or a closed maze?
Whats real, though, is the way every maker on the team handles and embroiders the digital fabric.
In one gorgeous lyric, a voice tries to explain what theyre up to.
The wall is a mirror, it sings, the mirror is a door.
The KILL ONE Racestreams via Playwrights Horizons through July 4.Capricorn 29streams viaposttheatrical.orgthrough the Tank through June 16.
