Word: bertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easily believe that we are sitting in a seedy but bright, lower class North End apartment. From the crowded clotheslines hanging across the theatre to the peeling paint on the dingy walls to the dirty linoleum floor, the intimate theatre-in-the round atmosphere brings us completely into Berto's apartment...
...Berto is a paunchy, middle-aged, ambitions but unsuccessful "inventor." He has brought his father from the senior citizens home to spend a day with the family. When in comes Aggy. Berto's estranged Southern belle wife, Who left him eight years ago to "find her life" in North Carolina. She has come back to retrieve some belongings and see her son Little Tom who had just entered college when she left Boston. She discovers to her dismay that the musically talented Tom has turned to performing as a clown in the city circus. His wife is the fat lady...
...Aggy's pain, brought to life by Lynda Robinson in a strong, almost poignant performance. Our lives are a mixture of both comedy and tragedy; perhaps neither can rise to gradiose levels in the common man, but the feelings are real and present in all of us. In Berto and Aggy we may be able to get a glimpse of our own moments of laughter and sorrow...
...plot line: Aggy (Angela Paton), ex-Wife from hillbilly country, remeets ex-Husband Berto (Jerry Stiller), a failed inventor. Her ostensible purpose is repossession of mingy personal belongings. Her real purpose: repossession of Hubby, a toasty-warm, sentimental, well-endowed Mediterranean stud...