The Village Voice, July 14th, 2004
THE WANDERER By Dmitry Lipkin Flea Theater 41 White Street 212.414.7773 Lipkin's fantasies collide with the Russian Brighton Beach NOTHING IS ELUCIDATED Magic realism can be daunting. Even the most experienced literary practitioners have moments when they stumble-when the sudden insertion of wild flights of fantasy in otherwise realistic plots is more confounding than enlightening. That said, literature is more forgiving than theater when it comes to this genre, partly because books have a consistent narrator who can assume (as Gabriel García Márquez put it) "a brick face" while lead...
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