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...Rimers of Eldritch--New Ehrlich Theater, 539 Tremont St., Boston...
Director Lisa Kornetsky copes with some real structural problems in Rimers. The play is supposed to build through a succession of disconnected incidents, creating a montage of the life of the all-but-abandoned- town of Eldritch, and incidentally explaining a murder committed there. But the incidents stay disjointed, hanging in the air. Sometimes they offer an excuse for fiery confrontations; all too rarely do they work together to create any overall unity or dramatic power. The vignettes show the shoddy sides of the villagers and their gossipy morality, but that's been done before. Time and again, Rimers seems...
...Wilson is too sparing with the privilege. Only two characters, Skelly and Cora, both outcast by the hypocritical moralizers of the village, have the opportunity to assert themselves. Eldritch despises Skelly (Robert Gould) for some sexual misadventure decades past, but he is the one, peeping through windows, who really knows the sordid truths which underlie their lives. Gould infuses the twisted, misanthropic Skelly with some of the most convincing passion in the play. Cora (Jennifer Divine), likewise denounced by the villagers, also achieves a down-to-earth honesty with the audience, though without the monologues. And had the role...