In 2.5 Minute Ride, Lisa Kron invites her audience on a roller coaster ride through the Kron family album. Rising and falling between high hilarity and deep disquiet, Kron demonstrates with disarming simplicity that humor and horror can share the same human moment. The play switches back and forth between Kron's journey to Auschwitz with her septuagenarian father, a Holocaust survivor; her Michigan family's annual pilgrimage to a Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park; and her brother's marriage to his Internet bride. By moving seamlessly between these three diverse recountings, Kron creates a complex and at times startling meditation on how human beings make sense of tragedy, grief, and everyday life.

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"In 70 wildly funny and terrible minutes, (Kron) demonstrates with disarming simplicity that humor and horror can share the same human moment... one of the most tender and discerning family tragicomedies in recent memory."
- Linda Winer, New York Newsday, March 29, 1999

"Kron is rivetingly present-tense, pulling you right into the whirl of emotion behind her liberal and figurative ride: the amusing terror that can be borne juxtaposed with the unamusing terror that can't be."
- Johanthan Kalb, The New York Press, March 1999

"While Kron's performance style is fresh and honest - she brings an immediacy and presence to the stage that few artists can conjure - it is her writing that shines through... (She) deals in the details of everyday life, but her vision of the past and of the future is both expansive and glorious."
- Michael Bronski, South End News, Boston, February 1998.

"Celebrates the power of laughter... a model example of the autobiographical show at its unaffected best."
- Charles Isherwood, Variety, April 5-11, 1999.