The word “whirlwind” surfaces often when talking about “On the Verge,” the Center Stage production opening Friday, Jan. 13, at the Midland Center for the Arts, and it isn’t always in reference to the turntable stage. Author Eric Overmyer’s quirky adventure in theater that includes a four-page glossary of terms for its actors — “Single-spaced,” added manager of Center Stage productions Kristen Lences — promises to challenge cast and audience alike as it leaps through time and space with reckless abandon. Three adventurous Victorian women, Fanny, Mary and Alex, set off on a wild journey when a flash of light literally throws them in a whirlwind of time and space. As they navigate their way through the changes that come with a world racing from 1888 to 1955 in a far-from-linear progression, they discover in themselves the need to roll with the times.
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