Review: "Falling Sideways Off the Edge of the Earth" Offers Some Vertiginous Views of Existence
Falling Sideways Off the Edge of the Earth Written by Pamela Enz Directed by C.C. Kellogg and Avery Wigglesworth Presented by Theater for the New City and Executive Director Crystal Field in co-production with Invulnerable Nothings at Theater for the New City 155 1st Ave., Manhattan, NYC January 13-28, 2024 Ginna Hoben and Marlon Xavier. Photo by Christian Frederick Stevenson Some plays are content to render the "big" metaphysical questions as subtext. Falling Sideways Off the Edge of the Earth is not one of those plays. From playwright Pamela Enz, who has described herself as a "hybrid theatrical collagist," Falling Sideways Off the Edge of the Earth comes at the big questions straight on and from multiple angles, foregrounding interrogations of sexuality, death, religion, the natures of humanity and the universe, and more in a poetic tissue of voices and viewpoints dense with both ontological inquiry and memorably crafted lines. This production demands the aud...