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...Cork Leg is a short play, but a more conventional stopgap than Beckett's artificial attachment might have been found for the Mainstage. Play uses a mere 10 square feet of the vast stage for 30 minutes. During this time, the only action is the motion of a followspot which reveals three actors mysteriously entombed in urns. For no apparent reason, they address the light as if it were in the process of tormenting them. Although the scenario is funny and somewhat chilling the first time through, our interest soon truns to boredom as the dialogue is replayed...
Lighting was generally botched on the reviewed night. The followspot was hopelessly out of sync (i.e. under rehearsed?) during Play. And, among other design gaffes, the background effects during Leg that were allegedly supposed to resemble sunrise were shamefully misprogrammed and were used in the wrong color combinations. In the larger context of a botched second act set, the lighting errors provide us with sufficient evidence to soundly condemn the work of Richard Rutkowski, despite his fine first act set concept...
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