Word: gynt
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...director of Glengarry Glen Ross is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to throw a bunch of actors into the Adams House swimming pool and charge people to watch them splash around. Mark Prascak, having toweled off from Peerless Gynt, is at it again with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and his aimless, rampant creativity detracts from an excellent script and some enjoyable acting...
Mark Prascak, who set Peer(less) Gynt in the Adams House pool last month and painted his set--and actors--green in last year's The Dream Play, directs the myth of Orpheus and Euridyce mainly for laughs...
...skeleton of the original is still recognizable in Prascak's version. The plot is basically the same: Peerless Gynt, a young dreamer-adventurer, spends his life in restless self-imposed exile from his one true love, the everpure Solveig. During his travels, a plethora of temptresses, trolls, lunatics, and other fanciful creatures test his wits, his consciousness, and his sense of identity...
...performances are, for the most part, cartoonish. T.J. Mitchell (Peerless Gynt) delivers all his lines with a self-conscious self-importance, while Jennifer Lack (Aase) shrieks all of hers at the top of her lungs. Listening to the two of them argue is like listening to Daffy Duck argue with Yosemite...
...does it all mean anything? Is it all just monumental silliness? Is Peer(less) Gynt even worth seeing? I don't know; it's hard to tell...