Short Shrifts " review
Brewery, BristolTwelve short plays in less than two hours is always a tall order. How to avoid each play feeling like a sketch, merely the beginning of something? Peter Oswald's plays, which he performs with Josephine Larsen, contain likable sparks of ideas, but their fleeting form remains a frustration rather than a revelatory joy.Part of the problem is that many tilt towards the peculiar, a kind of magical realism:…