WAITING FOR COWDOT

Normally, a surfeit of hyphens in any production assures trouble ahead, but Aaron Francis, the writer-director-designer-producer of this subversive, potent indictment of the lethal potential of passivity, has shown himself the exception that either tests or proves that rule.

In Betsy & Patty Find Out at the Broadwater Second Stage, seven cows (costumes by Francis) are placidly gathered in line quietly awaiting their turn to enter an abattoir. Well, except for Betsy (Jennifer DeRosa), a talkative bovine prone to asking questions, much to the annoyance of the more passive Patty (Jules Bruff). What Francis and his two actresses have devised is a Jean de La Fontaine fable with shades of the Warsaw Uprising.  Clever, funny, and so painfully relevant it reduces one to tears.

Betsy & Patty Find Out
The Broadwater (Second Stage), 6320 Santa Monica Blvd.
part of the Hollywood Fringe
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