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...story of Benjamin Murphy, a cog in the machine at a shirt manufacturing company, whose only escape from his drab world is a secret set of stairs that leads him to the roof of the building in which he works. Benjamin is portrayed by portrayed by Scott E. Lyman, a graduate student at the American Repertory Theater/ Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University (A.R.T./MXAT). Stuck in a life he has no passion for, Benjamin and his co-worker (A.R.T./MXAT student Lindsay Strachan), referred to simply as Girl, embark on a whimsical adventure...
...Lyman and Strachan’s performances are less compelling. Benjamin has a youthful excitement from the outset that lacks any of the weariness that his character claims to experience after the eight years he’s spent at a dead-end job. There’s simply a disconnect between his delivery and the problems Benjamin professes to have...
Patriarch Joe (Will Lyman) and his surviving son Chris (Lee Aaron Rosen) are ready to move on—the latter by marrying his missing brother’s fiancée, Ann (Diane Davis), who comes to stay with the Kellers. However, Joe’s wife Kate (Karen MacDonald) rejects Larry’s presumed death because, as she says, “Certain things can never happen...
...Lyman, too, provides an intricate study of his character. His Joe is one part Mister Rogers and one part Gordon Gekko, with a hint of Vito Corleone mixed in for good measure. A suggestion of darkness hides in Lyman’s friendly neighborhood persona, the many aspects of which he effectively explores throughout the play. Lyman’s only fault is the apparent mouth full of cotton balls he possesses every time he speaks, but his diction is never so unintelligible as to be distracting...
Compared to the commanding presence of MacDonald and Lyman, the performances of Rosen and Davis as the betrothed Chris and Ann seem overpowered and artificial. Davis delivers her lines with a permanent smile affixed to her face, yet she lacks Ann’s inner strength and natural verve. Rosen is charmingly naïve, but fails to capture the depth of Chris’s changing, complex emotions. Together, the two actors have only minimal chemistry, and instead simply recite their lines at each other rather than to each other...