Ionesco’s Absurdist ‘Frenzy’ Becomes ‘Delirium’ Off-Broadway
This review covers Igor Golyak’s staging of Eugene Ionesco’s 1962 absurdist work “Frenzy for Two, or More,” retitled “Delirium,” presented by Arlekin Players at the Space at Irondale. Chulpan Khamatova and Andrey Burkovskiy, Russian actors living in exile, perform the central couple’s combative and clownish exchanges. The production uses a collapsing, explosive environment to invite readings about contemporary global conflict and troubled intimate relationships.
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