As if rehearsing theatrical scenes, Fischer briefly plays Gordon's wife and Merchant, a preening producer, but most of Tirade stays at the same level of difficulty. Attempting to replicate stream of consciousness, the play strips away story, characters and chronological structure, but retains the responses to certain events and their implications about life, sex, money, mortality and other matters. But compared to the abstractions of 7 Stages' recent Samuel Beckett monologue Texts for Nothing , Tirade benefits from the restless motion of the three actors and their nods to the real world. Directed by Tim Habeger, the PushPush production draws attention to its theatricality, with the set appearing intentionally unfinished and the actors adjusting the lightboard in full view of the audience. It's still not easy to nail down exactly what Tirade for Three is, but uninteresting it's not.
Performances are Wed.-Sat.
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