Adam Szymkowicz’s play ‘Hearts Like Fists’ is blending comedy, action, superheroes, comics, and a single-minded villain together for most of this month in Cincinnati.
The play centers on Dr. X, who has decided that if he cannot find love, no one else will. In order to make certain everyone shares his misery, he goes around the city poisoning those people who are in committed, happy relationships.
Dr. X appears on a pitch-black stage, wearing goggles suitable to a typical mad scientist, announces “I have a face like a bowl of worms”, and proceeds to try to carry out his scheme. He is opposed in this effort by a trio of female ‘Crimefighters’ dressed in black leather, who also happen to be nurses.
Many of the action scenes are acted out in slow motion, giving the production a fluid quality and allowing viewers to take them in fully. In addition, words from comic Books are flashed on cyclorama behind the actors, so audience members can read ‘Ka-Pow’ and similar onomatopoeic terms as the fights take place, paying a nod to graphic novels.
‘Hearts Like Fists’ opened March 27 at the Know Theatre, an alternative performance space on Jackson Street, and runs through April 25. Tickets are $20. Theater management could work with brochure printers on a booklet about both the play and the theater itself.Get a Free Quote for Books
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