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Whose Life is it Anyway? relates the story of Ken Harrison (Tom Chick), a sculptor who has become paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. Harrison's realization that he will never recover leads him to prefer dying to continuing to live as a creative mind trapped in an immobile body. In addition, Harrison feels dehumanized in the antiseptic atmosphere of the hospital, where compassion is considered unprofessional. His request to die is viewed by his doctors as another symptom of shock--something to be treated with valium. Only through a court order does Harrison finally receive...
Director Jen Uphoff has done well to cast Chick as Harrison. The role demands that the character's body remain completely motionless while only the voice and face maintain the audience's attention. Chick has this ability and is the dynamic force in the performance...
Unfortunately, the strength of Chick's performance highlights the play's greatest flaw. A drama so focused on the plight of one charismatic individual has difficulty sustaining interest when that character is not involved in the on-stage action. Chick's impassioned acting enhances this contradictory aspect of the play--he is so absorbing that the scenes in which he is not involved appear flat...
...production is not without its merits. Tom Chick provides a creative, exciting interpretation of Cassio as a befuddled yet well-intentioned swash-buckler. Nell Benjamin creates an attractive and spirited Desdemona, and John Haddon, with his rich accent and beautiful eloqution, is occasionally poetic in delivering Lodovico's lines...
With that, he glanced nervously about him, produced a stapler from his backpack, and forcefully united his Chick-wich and the underside of the dining hall table. It may still be there...