Witty 'Grimly Handsome' Devolves Into Silliness
Scene: Three red pandas perch themselves in triumph on the stage of the theater at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery. With promises of doom for all mankind, they join their voices for a magnificent whooping shriek. “Grimly Handsome,” writer-director Julia Jarcho’s elegant jumble of a play, works very hard to prepare for this strange moment. Jarcho splits her story of Christmas, murder, and wildl…