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Nagy's play, which first premiered in London in 1995, takes place in Manhattan, on the East Side. The plot focuses around the disappearance of Sarah Casey (Adia Tucker '01), a travel agent who never travels, and on Elston Rupp's (Brendon DeMay '03) possible involvement with this disappearance. Sarah's mother (Dale Shuger '01) doesn't care about her, and her boyfriend (Shawn Snyder '03) doesn't understand...
...Enter Elston Rupp. He wears a ridiculous looking red and black tuxedo; he knows Sarah's name, he talks about fate. None of this would be particularly remarkable except for the fact that Sarah left the bar with him and was never seen again. Elston mentions that he drowns people in bathtubs-he takes them home and keeps them for a few days to talk to them and then he kills them. We never find out if this was Sarah's fate or if she simply decided to disappear. The play instead focuses on the lives of these...
...carried out through a series of vignettes, usually between two or three characters. They are nicely composed and woven together; the problem is that in this production they are not woven closely enough. The set is designed specifically for fast scene changes-the bar, apartments, the clothing store Elston works at are all spread out on the stage so that only the lighting has to change for a new scene to begin. Yet sometimes the audience has to wait nearly three minutes between scenes...
Brendon DeMay '03 as mysterious and disturbing Elston Rupp carried the show. Natalie (Raya Terry '04), his employer who honestly wants to be good to him, cannot because he makes her skin crawl. DeMay is good because his sincere stares, pointed yet innocent questions and lack of emotion do make your skin crawl. At the same time you want to see more of him-to find out what makes him tick. And it's not often that you want to see more of a character who is a short, creepy, lying, loser who may or may not be a serial...
...Keith Elston, head of the ACLU in North and South Dakota, yesterday retracting his threat to expose gay lawmakers who vote to ban homosexual marriages in the Dakotas after being reprimanded by the national director of the ACLU...