Jeremy Barker from Seattlest posted a review of Orgy of Tolerance this afternoon:

Regina Hackett at Another Bouncing Ball reviews this weekend's performance:

Jan Fabre's splendid company saves him from the didactic tedium of his text, but just barely.

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Christopher Frizzelle at the Stranger opened up a thread about Orgy of Tolerance. See what commenters have to say about show.

The show this weekend has kicked off some debate. Words (fighting and otherwise) have started to hit over at the Stranger:

The show—which involves competitive masturbation, sodomy with rifles, and a shopping-cart ballet—is playing this weekend and I'm already receiving emails and overhearing arguments about it.

Misha Berson from the Seattle Times writes:

As an unfettered (sometimes unclothed) Euro-stomp howl against the sins of a bespoiled Western Civilization, this "Orgy" is certainly impassioned.

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Please try this experiment with me: attend Orgy of Tolerance at On the Boards. Observe, react, process in sleep and in waking. Pull yourself together the following morning, sit down to read some news, clutching your coffee for comfort and support. Possessed by some demon, decide you might as well read the online article the Atlantic has recently posted on SpongeBob SquarePants. Hold on tight as interesting and horrifying associations speed through your mind.

I had not quite registered the image onstage until I heard, "Sometimes this is just the more modern way of doing things." The cast was onstage warming up in their underwear and sports socks. Someone else responded, "Oh, now I see why everyone is sitting so close." I was sitting in front of an older couple and their friends who were seemingly out for a nice night of art/theatre. The piece began and launched into a masturbation competition. I’m fairly certain that they didn’t know what they were in for and I very was happy that they came. I'm not sure they were.

"When you sit on your sofa at home in the evening and watch television," says Fabre, "you see so much perversity and violence, such extreme excess, that as an artist you cannot top it."

Jan, you missed the mark. You took aim at so many human sins and indulgences, and arranged them in a shocking, high-art fashion, and yet in the end, you said nothing, suggested nothing, and added nothing to what should be a grand conversation on awareness in the 21st century. The program says you were inspired by finding yourself sitting down, watching sex and violence, and not doing anything about it. But what did you make me, as your viewer? An American, sitting down, watching sex and violence, and doing nothing.