Karamazov Brothers Juggle Fish, Cleavers, Ice, Puns: John Simon
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Like the Holy Roman Empire, which was none of the above, the Flying Karamazov Brothers are not airborne, Russian or kin. And though they call their new show “4Play,” their multiple skills, profusely and diversely displayed, make it look more like 40 at multitalented play.
Founded in 1973 by Paul Magid, who alone is still with them, they have been at it ever since: a quartet that is musical, histrionic, jocular, balletic, acrobatic and almost continually juggling -- clubs, balls, and just about everything from a meat cleaver to a burning torch, from sundry musical instruments to a dead flounder.