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...Paul Frohock '79 is the ambitious writer-actor-director who tries to mold Forbidden Fruits into a cogent plea for environmental sanity. The play lacks the credibility, acting, and surprise, however, that it needs to impress the polluting zealot with the gravity and foolishness of his actions. Polluting zealots aside, the play never seems to establish a rapport with its audience, leaving Forbidden Fruii up on the stage, away from the audience, a simple dialogue between some actors...
...Paul Frohock '79, the ambitious playwright-actor-director who tries to mold Forbidden Fruits deals with a small, rural town with latent ambitions. A corporate nuke, Mr. Prometheus (David Lamb), charms the townspeople into believing his promises about the advantages of having a nuclear power plant in their town. The naive, eager community leaders, led by their mayor (Roy Stevenson), embrace the idea behind the plant and the potential wealth it promises. Only one maverick breaks the unanimity of the town's acceptance. Bailey, played haphazardly by Doug Floyd, questions the wisdom of having such a destructive potential in such...
...STAGE IS BARE, and the action is conducted in two spotlights. Sam, played by Frohock himself, is the old bearded, sagelike narrator of the story. He sits in a chair to the left of the stage throughout the production, pooping in and out of the dialogue going on on the right side of the stage. The lighting is easy enough, panning onto either Sam or the actors to the right of the stage...
...plot, shallow by itself, is further hampered by poor acting. Frohock is the only actor on the stage who does a creditable job, and all the others are too frequently trapped by memory lapses and forgotten lines. These slips occur far too often for even the most patient viewer to dismiss. The lines seem so unnatural to the actors at times that some actors start saying the lines--stop--then reword what they were saying, presumably to the way they were written. These errors eradicate whatever respect the play may have established with its audience--and that makes Forbidden Fruit...
Opening next week at the Loeb, along with a host of other shows, is the Mainstage production of Marat/Sade, directed by Kerry Konrad '78. Tonight, the Loeb Ex will showcase Forbidden Fruits, an original play by Paul Frohock. Our roving photographer caught piquant moments in both rehearsals...