![]() Both also give credence to author Sarah Vowell’s assertion in her book The Partly Cloudy Patriot that “being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.” Harrison Smith (Shreddy Eddy), Gary L. ![]() While wildly different, both works center a group of misfits who find connection and escape from their everyday lives in a world suffused with fantasy. While watching Airness, I was struck with something akin to déjà vu and realized that this play could almost be in conversation with the last show I reviewed, Rorschach’s She Kills Monsters. It’s a show about people taking a deeply silly thing extremely seriously and delighting the audience in the process.Īirness closes Novemat Keegan Theatre. This one moment, perhaps more than any other, perfectly encapsulates Chelsea Marcantel’s hit air guitar play, Airness, currently being given its DC premiere in a joint production between The Keegan Theatre and 1 st Stage. ![]() ![]() “The whole impetus of air guitar is world peace,” earnestly intones a grown man who goes by the name Golden Thunder right before he goes out on stage in a dingy bar to play a pretend instrument. ![]()
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