Archive for November 25th, 2008
“Fata Morgana”: 71% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET Although Vajda’s three-act comedy occasionally falls prey to patches of inert dialogue, director Marilyn Fox’s psychologically assured production, blessed by Audrey Eisner’s gorgeous period costumes, possesses a delicate, melancholy emotional truth. Paul Birchall – LA Weekly SWEET A poignant coming-of-age saga lurks within the risqué froth of “Fata Morgana.” Hungarian writer Ernest Vajda’s 1924 [...]
“The Holy Mother of Hadley, New York” – 50% – Bitter
BITTER Wiechmann’s profoundly humorless writing often feels like an attempt to cross Under Milk Wood with the 1990s religious movie The Rapture, albeit with incredibly inert plotting and flat dialogue. Much of the play’s mysticism will seem impenetrable and outlandish to a casually nonreligious viewer; but that’s not as much of a problem as is [...]
“Shock Therapy” – 50% – Bitter
SWEET There’s a party going on at the home of a prominent psychiatrist who is too busy talking on the phone to his celebrating clients to go to the party. Attending is a hyper psychiatrist who only believes in drug therapy and who happens to be sleeping with the phone doc’s wife. Blend in a [...]