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"I think the thing is, we want to alienate people, but at the same time, we don't want to alienate people," said Rachel Hynes, sitting in the courtyard in from of Crawl Space Gallery last weekend. "Like, maybe I'd like to say: 'Come. If you want. We don't, like, care what anybody thinks, and if you don't like it, walk out. That would make me happy.' But then I'm like, 'Oh! That makes me sound so angry!'"

     

This last weekend at Theatre off Jackson, the Missoula Oblongata, out of Baltimore, got us revved up for what's looking to be a killer week of experimental theatre and performance. And yes, yes...we can see the eyes of readers rolling already. More performance art! Well, here's the trick--if there's one thing we took away from Missoula Oblongata's The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen, it's that, quite the opposite of what you might expect, the off-the-wall stuff is (often) more approachable than the mainstream stuff you'd get at the Rep or Intiman or the like.