Love Child Fields Frenzy                                

By Michael Feingold

Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 at 3:14pm

For pleasure in the explosive vein, the kvetchers might try Love Child (New World Stages), 85 frenzied minutes of pure silliness written and performed by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton, who inhabit all the characters and sound effects of one (thankfully imaginary!) horrific night among professionalism-free but desperately hard-working theatrical wannabes who have elected to revive Euripides' obscure Ion at a converted sausage factory in Red Hook. To gauge the degree of silliness involved, take that premise as the evening's most believable aspect. Jenkins is a capable comic actor; the lanky Stanton, who appears to have been assembled wholly from pipe cleaners, is a born clown. You probably won't need to take your mood elevators after seeing them.