Summary
When the actor playing Orlando leaves suddenly, Alexandra dons male garb to play a male lover to his lesbian ex-lover. Complicating matters, Jayne Summerhouse (Amy Resnick), herself a former lover of the play's Hghting director (also played by Amy Resnick), is cast in the play and the backstage and front stage shenanigans commence. Not all scenes are just funny; [Scott Capurro] has a drunken monologue in which he tries to seduce the "straight" Orlando, spells out the pain of being middleaged, homosexual and a second-rate actor. "Who needs another play about that?" he asks. Then Resnick comes on for a tour-deforce scene in which her two characters have a hysterically combative dialogue and the comedy takes off again.
Fat Pig is not a holiday play, but if the Aurora production extended to 2010 the theater would still be sold out. Even though Neil LaBute's take on men (weak and craven and too much aware of public opinion) isn't warm-hearted, authences walk out knowing they have seen drama at its best. The four actors (Alexandra Creighton, Liliane Klein, Peter Ruocco and lud Williford) pull us into the small but universal story immediately, and for 100 minutes allow us to completely enter their world. Director Barbara Damashek has cast well and brings forth every nuance of this painful look at how men behave - and how they don't.See the full content of this document
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All the World's a 'Stupor'
All the world's a 'Stupor'
SF Playhouse conquers with latest farcePlaywright David Greenspan borrows from Shakespeare for She Stoops to Comedy, a titillating farce that doesn't separate the girls from th...See the full content of this document
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