For two years now I’ve been giving the producers of the Rhinoceros Theater Festival a hard time over whether they can legitimately call their curated event a fringe fest. Last week I even offered them an alternate term, “tribal convocation,” which I consider more accurate and even kind of sweet. Will they use it? They have my permission.
Like the antibeauty character in Footnotes, Eileen Tull obsesses over body image and failed intimacy. In Bad Dates, or What Killed That Monkey in Indiana Jones Only Makes Me Stronger (Thu 9 PM) she uses her unnatural attachment to Harrison Ford as cover for some fairly retrograde—i.e., pre-Amy Schumer—loser-woman comedy. What saves the evening is Tull’s easy style, candor, and apparently encyclopedic knowledge of Ford’s filmography.
Through 2/28: Wed-Fri 7 and 9 PM; Sat 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10:30 PM; Sun 2, 5, and 7 PM; Mon 7 and 9 PM, Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, 773-539-7838, rhinofest.com, $12 in advance, $15 or pay what you can at the door.
