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Feb 24, 2011
One Flea Spare‘s Tension Never Pays Off
In One Flea Spare, Naomi Wallace’s bubonic plague-set drama, director Alexander Strain moodily captures the claustrophobic feeling that results when four potentially infected individuals are quarantined in a room together. But when the constrained mood of Forum Theatre’s latest production is combined with the work’s sluggish pacing and unsurprising character reveals, the quartet aren’t the only people eager to escape.