YOU BETTER SIT DOWN @ ARTSEMERSON

Yeah, yeah. Your parents suck, our parents suck, your parent’s parents sucked and so on. Unless you turn your gripes into a gripping 90-minute performance—a la You Better Sit Down at ArtsEmerson, then we’re going to continue with our protracted fake-yawning. Can you compete with The Civilians Theater Company’s performances as their own progenitors? Or with an additional coda of Emerson artists talking about their folks? (You best believe those Lions have some fucked up family lives.) Oh, what’s that? Your dad/mom, like, totally embarrassed you this one time? Great. Get crackin’ on that, Christopher Marlame.

[Sun 10.30.11. 559 Washington St., Boston. 617.824.8400. 2pm/12+/$25-$75. @ArtsEmerson. artsemerson.org]