Theater review: ‘Rock Bottom,’ at the edge of morbid music-making

You've heard this before, right? Rock band begins to fray at the edges; the personalities clash, and the label dumps them; the drummer's dad is busted for torturing women in a dungeon . . .

"No" to that last part?

That's the bridge too far in "Rock Bottom: A Rock Opus," a consciously sleazy new show from Landless Theatre Company. If there is not yet a genre called garage-band theater, there ought to be, and this would be a serviceable sample (especially because the theater space at the District of Columbia Arts Center is about the size of a garage). It's cast with young-ish musicians who play the original songs with commitment and a decent skill level, and who act like garage-band musicians, meaning lots of profane sarcasm and mumbling.

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Sarah Halzack 05 Aug, 2011

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