Her Hamlet

Theater Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh City Paper: There is a genre of theater you might call the Avant-Garde Think Piece. Instead of a plot, the show "analyzes" a "text" for "postmodern" "themes." If it could, the performance would be riddled with footnotes, and patrons would walk out with a thick bibliography and an intense desire to read Jacques Lacan. The style is cerebral, condescending and induces headaches. Freshman college students are required to watch such productions; they frown for two-plus hours, and they resolve never to watch theater again.