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With four directors—Vestige mainstay Susie Gidseg (Touch), Will Hollis Snider (Orestes), and first-timers Aaron Black and Jen Brown—eleven playwrights, and fifteen actors performing eleven short plays, Muses succeeds at assembling a sampler that delivers an above-average hit-to-miss ratio. Which, given the mixtape-like nature of the evening, is a pretty strong compliment.

The Austin premiere of Touch, written by Toni Press-Coffman and directed by Susie Gidseg, is the sort of performance that raises questions for the audience. Some of them, like whether it's fair to judge a person for how he grieves, are the sort that are comfortable to ask, if a bit sad. Others—for example, whether it's fair for a male critic to be wary of a play written and directed by women that uses a female character's rape and torture to explore a man's pain&mash;are less so.