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Atwater Village Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
In Neal Bell’s darkly comic drama Cold Sweat, we meet Alice Franklin, a physician in the early 1970’s who begins to question the conventional wisdom of lying to terminally ill patients about their condition. Inspired in part by the life of pioneering psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (On Death and Dying), Bell’s play finds humor in the unlikeliest places even as it pitches our modern scientific skepticism against its eternal nemesis: faith. Cold Sweat — coming to L.A.’s Atwater Village Theatre — is a veritable cabinet of curiosities, complete with a lifesaving dummy, a rogue eyeball and a jar of malodorous flesh of indeterminate provenance. Beneath the wisecracks and the gallows humor, a powerful undertow of grief lends gravity to the otherwise comic proceedings.
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