Instead, there’s a delicious slow burn of nerves and an ending that cleverly lets you interpret what you’ve just seen. That initial tension ramps up throughout the drama, thanks in part to director Joe Llorens and his fine cast, Charis Walter and Manuel Solis-Bauza, who all have the sense not to let things get too over-the-top too fast. Playwright Bethany Dickens Assaf has set up a lot of tension from the start: The astronauts are alone in individual pods, they are from separate hostile nations on Earth, and (wait for it) they might not be alone. “Lots of bad things can happen in space.” So says one of the two astronauts orbiting on the dark side of an unknown planet in “The Vast of Darkness” (Green venue, 60 minutes). (Courtesy Emotions Dance via Orlando Fringe) It’s part of this year’s Orlando Fringe Festival. Emotions Dance’s “7 Deadly Sins” follows a young woman down the path of temptation.
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