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Dallas Observer - July 22-28, 2004

STAGE: The Festival of Independent Theatres

By Andrea Grimes

Marathon play-going, walks on the beach and more community theatre buffs than you can shake a stick at can mean only one thing, and it's not a Christopher Guest film. It's the Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center. Showcasing local talent in rotating repertory style, FIT treats patrons to two or three short plays per sitting.

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In Friday's Finale, For the Love of an Anesthesiologist, Texas-born writer and director Brad McEntire achieves, nay, creates new levels of hilarity in a Tarantino-meets-Twilight Zone effort from Audacity Productions.

Alfred (Jeff Swearingen), an occasionally spastic man on the run, searches for meaning, an anesthesiologist (Maura Murphy) and his way out of an eerie island bar. Joining him are a transgendered cocktail waitress (Julie Reinegal), a man in a trench coat (Kenneth Fulenwider, who steals the show) and a pirate-like Parisian ex-lover (Trista Wyly). Love shouldn't be missed.

FIT runs through August 7 at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther drive on White Rock Lake. All plays reviewed above repeat at various times; see website for scheduling: www.bathhousecultural.com/fit2004.html. 214-670-8749.

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