Lisa Kron

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“In her remarkable new performance piece, "2.5 Minute Ride," Lisa. Kron serves up wonderfully evocative, but often seriously funny, strings of words. But it’s the pauses around and beneath those words, silences that are respectful to the point of awe, that set off the emotional vibrations that won’t stop.” — The New York Times

Triple Trek:   Lisa Kron's 2.5 Minute Ride is three journeys in one

From the Boston Phoenix 

Lisa Kron lives in Manhattan's East Village, on the same street as such theatrical landmarks as the WOW Café Theatre (a lesbian collective where she got her start as a solo performer), LaMama ETC, and the New York Theatre Workshop (birthplace of Rent and current venue of Brides of the Moon, a play written and performed by Kron's troupe, The Five Lesbian Brothers). She lives with her partner, fellow Brother Peg Healey, in a building covered with such postgraduate graffiti as "Certitude does not exist, in a well-appointed apartment with a radio in every room."

That Kron is picking up on a lot of different frequencies is apparent in her new solo show, 2.5 Minute Ride, which American Repertory Theatre's New Stages brings to Boston January 6 through 18. Kron's monologue weaves three autobiographical stories: her pilgrimage to Auschwitz with her Holocaust-survivor father, her family's annual trip to an Ohio amusement park, and her brother's wedding to a woman he met on the Internet...

Lisa Kron's 2.5 Minute Ride

By Naomi Pfefferman, Entertainment Editor, Jewish Journal

Excerpt:

When Lisa Kron's father, Walter, saw her acclaimed, one-woman show, "2.5 Minute Ride," his response was wry. "Nice eulogy, but I'm not dead yet," the 78-year-old Holocaust survivor quipped.

Kron, a 38-year-old actor-monologist-comedian, admits that the piece, in part, "is a 70-minute meditation on the [inevitable] death of my father." It is her attempt to come to grips with his mortality; with her yearning to "become a receptacle for all the things he knows."

But in the end, Kron realizes, that is ultimately impossible. When her father dies, all the information he carries about his lost Jewish world will die, too. "There is nothing I can do about it," Kron said, during a telephone interview. "And I have to grieve that."

Kron, known for her work with the Obie-winning Five Lesbian Brothers, says her father, an attorney and civil rights activist, was, in many ways, responsible for her career in alternative theater. Having lost his parents in Auschwitz, he came to the U.S. at the age of 15 on the Kindertransport, an effort to evacuate Jewish children from Nazi Germany. But, he always maintained, had he not had the fortune of being born Jewish, he could just as easily have become a Nazi...

Lisa Kron

From extremetaste.com

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Kron has been writing and performing solo work for the past 14 years. Her work has been presented at spaces including New York Theatre Workshop, The Joseph Papp Public Theater, Serious Fun! at Lincoln Center, LaJolla Playhouse, A.R.T (Cambirdge), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Rep, Spoleto U.S.A, Trinity Rep/Perishable Theatre, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The WOW Café, Dixon Place, PS122, and at the Barbican Centre in London. She received a Drama Desk nomination for her show 101 Humiliating Stories. For her newest work, 2.5 Minute Ride, she received an Obie Award, a L.A. Dramalogue Award and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations...

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