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Ken Webster's Hyde Park Theatre serves as the central Texas conduit for small-scale literary plays, while artistic director Bonnie Collum's VORTEX is the Austin theatre with the highest national profile [ ]context matters here, and the significance of letting go of the sine qua non of theatre—a live performance and a live audience—also merits an assessment because of its consequences for scripted, live theatre as a viable form in an era of pandemic and endless, widely accessible streaming A not-quite-a-drawl accent delivered the staccato language like loose change clattering on the floor, a sound that was amplified whenever Victor spat out certain trigger words like house and group—symbols of the family-oriented community that his childhood trained him to desire The play culminated in a dream-like sensation as the offstage characters in Victor's life shoved him out into a space without identifiable features—or even an audience—and the camera's darkness swallowed him whole

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