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The Ultimate Battle for Total Control of the Entire Universe
By Rich Orloff

One Acts 2013: Game Night
Pink Banana Theatre Company
June 2013

Jason - Peter Hiller
Ashley - Samantha Martinson

Director - Leda Hoffmann
Fight Choreographer - Chris Elst
Sound Designer - Erin Paige

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Peter Hiller. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
REVIEWS

Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"Pink Banana saves the best for last: Rich Orloff's "The Ultimate Battle for Total Control of the Entire Universe." Even as tweens Ashley (Samantha Martinson) and Jason (Peter Hiller) impersonate superheroes battling for the cosmos, their sexual awakening is changing the rules of their childhood games.

Promising director Leda Hoffmann again coaxes performances that are playful but also poignant, reminding us that every game will eventually end - and that we should therefore relish them all while we will play on."

Click here for the full Journal Sentinel review.

Matthew Reddin, Third Coast Daily:

"The other out-of-town play was the closing piece: The Ultimate Battle for Total Control of the Entire Universe, by Pink Banana favorite Rich Orloff. While stacking the bottom half of the deck probably wasn’t intentional, the Pink Banana team clearly knew this would be the best for a finale. Ultimate Battle starts off with two middle-school-ish kids (Samantha Martinson and Peter Hiller) roughhousing in the backyard. Then there’s a moment of adulthood that crashes in – too priceless to reveal – and suddenly the piece is less a perfect, idealized picture of childhood and more candid, honest snapshots revealing two almost-adults in the moment they realize that transition’s begun. It’s a play the wrong combination of actors and directors could butcher, but Martinson, Hiller and director Leda Hoffman never fall out of tune."

Click here for the full Third Coast Daily review.
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Peter Hiller and Samantha Martinson. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
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Peter Hiller and Samantha Martinson. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
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Peter Hiller and Samantha Martinson. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
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Peter Hiller and Samantha Martinson. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
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Peter Hiller and Samantha Martinson. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
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Peter Hiller and Samantha Martinson. Photo by Paul Matthew Madden.
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