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Linas Phillips' new theater piece "Lasagna or: How I Learned to Stop Slipping Towards the Prison of Permanent Darkness" opened tonight at On the Boards. Linas is primarily known for his feature documentary films "Walking to Werner" and "Great Speeches From a Dying World" in which he plays a significant part role, also documenting dramatic and affecting moments in the lives of others.

 “ ”¦a wet balloon filled with warm clams ”  ”¦that one is going to stick with me for awhile. Fantastic musings on sex, moments with snakes that mean everything and nothing, the removing of hair pins, a white shirt that says  ”˜Rainbow Times’, a moving yet simple dance sequence that illuminated this world, an alien bringing lasagna, the fun combination of humans and television screens, and a lecture from Whitley Strieber’s The Key that brought pasta eating to an art form ”¦the details form layers in this world, yet what do they mean? How do they come together? Is there a story?

Both the Times and the PI have put out previews of Lasagna. Read them here: Linas Phillips serves up Lasagna at On the Boards Inexplicable Lasagna is multilayered