'Blood Play' Balances Fun and Gloom in a Suburban Basement Setting
Potatoes tied up with twine. A handful of melted Japanese samurais. Tree roots that grow from pipes. Half of a cow. Streetlights you can drink. The other half of the cow. It’s amazing the things people keep in their basements. The fully finished downstairs in question belongs to a nice Jewish family who have recently moved to a suburb of 1950s Chicago. And as in every piece by the Debate Society, the working ba…