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Sick

Through May 2, $25-$35, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 866-811-4111, lunatheater.org.

Published: Apr 13, 2010

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The Krebses aren't well in Luna Theater Co.'s Philly première of Zayd Dohrn's Sick. Maxine Krebs (Sally Mercer) wears a protective mask and holds her teenage children (Bethany Ditnes and Michael Tomasetti) captive in their antiseptic white-on-white townhouse. Do they really suffer from MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), an aversion to the modern world's impurities, or is it all in their heads? Husband Sidney (David Hutchman) brings an outsider (Gregg Pica) home to test and tempt his children, setting up an explosive showdown with Maxine. Dohrn's script, a reaction to 9/11 and communicable-disease scares like SARS and swine flu, makes these issues intensely personal.

Through May 2, $25-$35, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 866-811-4111, lunatheater.org.

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