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Theater reviews: Plan-B Theatre Co.’s Just Add Water and Salt Lake Acting Company’s The Roommate.
Two local theatrical productions look for humor in their darker underlying subject matter.
There are innumerable clichés about how hard comedy is—but however hard comedy might be in a larger sense, it’s even harder to integrate comedy successfully into something that’s thematically heavier. Do the jokes complement the underlying ideas, or blunt them?
Is the balance right? And is the comedy … you know, actually funny? Two local theatrical productions find themselves wrestling with that issue—and, impressively, wind up mostly successful at providing amusement without losing sight of the bigger issues the text is chewing on.
In Plan-B Theatre Company’s Just Add Water—a new original work…
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