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There's a moment in Small Wooden Shoe's Dedicated to the Revolutions, which opened last night at Buddies in Bad Times Theate, where Erin Shields talks about the Scientific Method as she remembers it from her high school education: Hypothesize, Experiment, Observe, Report. For Small Wooden Shoe, this show represents their own version of the "Report" stage. In 2006, the company began work on a series of shows, each devoted to one of seven scientific/technological revolutions: Gutenberg, Copernican, Newtonian, Industrial, Darwinian, Nuclear, and Information. This new show is a culmination of those other shows, bringing together everything they've learned about how these revolutions have shaped our society with the help of dry-erase markers, some string-cup telephones, and a ukulele.

The Pastor Phelps Project: A Fundamentalist Cabaret is certainly one of the most talked-about shows at this year's SummerWorks Festival. Although the notorious funeral-picketing pastor's Westboro Baptist cronies didn't actually make it into the country, it certainly can't have hurt the show's ticket sales. A collective creation made up mostly from found transcript text (FOX News, The O'Reilly Factor, The Tyra Banks Show, etc.), the play explores the role Fred Phelps, Sr. has carved out for himself in popular culture.