Body of Work

PLAN-B SHOW WAS HEARTY AND SPICY
BUT RARELY BLAND
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Ivan Lincoln, Deseret Morning News, July 20, 2003

It's doubtful that Plan-B Theatre Company will ever be confused with anything even remotely close to "mainstream." It's one local troupe that prides itself in taking the audience precariously close to the edge, artistically; Plan-B's patrons are regularly prodded out of their comfort zones.

Issue-oriented theater should make you squirm. Last Monday, during a fund-raiser in the Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Plan-B staged an entire evening of works that would likely raise the dander on many narrow-minded souls. And the Banned Played On focused on nearly two-dozen pieces of literature -- books and plays -- which, at one time or another, have been censored.

In a city where, for some people, the most "filling" things are junk food or green Jell-O, the Plan-B fundraiser was a smorgasbord of substantial helpings of socially conscious literature. Some was hearty... a few maybe a little too spicy for some tastes . . . but rarely was any of it bland.

And the Banned Played On was filled with choice bits of wisdom . . . and understanding.