JOB: THE HIP-HOP SAGA

Taking stock of their success at last year's Fringe Festival with JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical and its equally hitty 2003 sequel, JOB II: The Demon of the Eternal Recurrence, playwright-performers Jerome Saibil and Eli Batalion have done the logical thing and paired the ingenious one-act works into a double-barrelled allegorical onslaught with JOB: The Hip-Hop Saga, currently running at the Tarragon. While the first play retold the biblical tale of Job as a modern hip-hop parable, with Saibil and Batalion taking on various roles, including those of narrator MCs Cain and Abel, the sequel is set in the Gott ist tot philosophical world of Friedrich Nietzsche. Ambitious, yeah, but with brain-hurting mad rhymes to match. Definitely worth a first or second look. Running until Dec. 14 at the Tarragon Extra Space, 30 Bridgman. $24 ($18 students, seniors & Equity members). 416-531-1827.

— Kieran Grant