IRC producing artistic director Tina Brock interviews Christopher Munden about Kensington Soccer Club, Chosen by Committee, his work as a theater critic and editor, and his hungry cat Walter cat.
View More Phindie editor Christopher Munden goes Into the Absurd
Philly’s absurdist theater company continues to bring good nothingness to life even in this time of absurd nothingness
View More IRC Goes Into the Absurd with A Weekly Virtually Existential Dinner Conversation
We are living in absurd times
View More THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): It’s not that way. It’s over here
An existential, feminist play of wildly mournful keening, filled with rich Ianguage, intense questions, and rueful comedy
View More WOMAN AND SCARECROW (Irish Heritage Theatre): When did this all end in tragedy?
3 weeks. 10 plays. My first Fringe Festival.
View More Spooky Queers, Reimagined Classics, Giant Misses: 2019 Fringe recap from an outsider
IRC widens the scope of what absurdism means in our absurd world
View More COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe review
For their June show, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium decided to take on a grotesque play by Christopher Durang which Tina Brock directed. Brock herself has…
View More BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION (IRC): A terribly funny nightmare of a beach trip
Chuck Schultz reviews Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s DREAM GIRL in sketch and words.
View More Theater in Sketch: DREAM GIRL (IRC)
John Rosenberg brings his series of long-form interviews to Phindie with IRC director Tina Brock.
View More Getting to Know Tina Brock of Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.
View More ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review (2nd)
Tennessee Williams slept with my boyfriend’s father. I love saying that at a party.
View More ECCENTRICITIES and random notes on Tennessee Williams
ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.
View More ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review
From modern to historic, tragic to fantastic, THE WOMEN OF IRELAND views the feminine from many angles, creating a fleshed out sculpture of Irish life.
View More THE WOMEN OF IRELAND (Irish Heritage Theater): Short Irish classics
Henrik Eger talked to the IRC cast about their production of Jean Anouith’s play.
View More Remembering TIME REMEMBERED: Interviews with the IRC cast
Sketches of TIME REMEMBERED by Jean Anouilh, presented by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium February 6-March 4, 2018 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5
View More Theater in Sketch: TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)
The IRC prove once again that they are able to pluck strange fruits out of theatrical history and serve them up ably.
View More TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?
A comedy little known in its native Britain has become a cult favorite in Germany.
View More Dinner for One: The greatest cult film you’ve never heard of
Welcome to Philadelphia, international Fringe artists.
View More International Fringe 2017: A welcome to theater from around the world coming to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
The Bald Soprano always wears her hair in the same style. And The Bald Soprano, written in 1950 by Eugene Ionesco as a “tragedy of…
View More EUGèNE IONESCO’S THE BALD SOPRANO (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2017 Fringe review
Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.
View More Eugene Ionesco’s THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): 2017 Fringe Review