Vice sheds light on noir in ‘A Fatal Step’
If you love film noir — the chiaroscuro of the lighting, the high melodrama, the grisly climaxes, the argot of “dames” and “shmucks” — you’ve probably come to notice that the genre’s protagonists, its voiceover-spouting gumshoes and reporters, almost always happen to be be men.
Enter Jill Vice, whose noir solo show “A Fatal Step” puts a woman at the center of the action. Her femme fatale is Sarah, a schemer hoping to reignite the dimming passions of her boyfriend, Frank. And at the show’s Thursday, Jan.