Life isn’t about avoiding pain but plumbing its depths and managing the results wails Another Kind of Love, a female-driven punk-rock masterpiece by Crystal Skillman, now receiving a debut production from InFusion Theatre Company. Maybe masterpiece isn’t quite the right word—it suggests something lofty and out of reach, where this play banks on raw and accessible if festering emotions. But an artistic achievement it is.
Skillman jokes that while in rehearsals for her 2012 play Wild, the crew used to tally the show’s F-bombs—more than 300, they estimated. There could easily be that many and more here, another refreshing deviation from a gendered norm. The show’s fucks represent a freedom of their own—the uninhibited women who utter them don’t give one. As Bikini Kill once screamed, “Does it scare you boy that we don’t need you? Us punk rock whores don’t need you.” v
Through 6/14: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM Chopin Theatre 1543 W. Division 773-769-3832 infusiontheatre.com $25, $20 seniors, $15 students.
