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...part, the judge has officiated at the marriage of a juror's child and twice juggled the trial vacation to accommodate juror honeymoons. "This court cannot stand in the way of love," he states. Or of birth, for that matter. He declared a day off when one juror's mare dropped a foal...
...Jonny and Cathy's large coterie include the disturbed Cider (played with scenerychewing gusto by David Buttaro), who carries a book of Nietzsche in one hand and a bottle in the other; Isaiah (Jason Cogan), who is a first year Harvard Law student and big-brother figure to Jonny; Mare (Jennifer Hodges), a tough whore; and Strawberry (Lena Strayhorn), a flirtatious ditz...
Cider is also the catalyst for most of the ridiculous things that happen in this play. He pushes the drunken Jonny into the arms of Mare, who seduces him. Guilt-stricken and distraught, Jonny tries to commit suicide in Cider's presence, but accidentally shoots Cathy's roommate dead and is subsequently sent to prison...
...prison/freedom imagery runs throughout the play, with Cider finding in violence freedom from what he calls "the prison" of alcohol, and Mare (and later Cathy) finding in prostitution freedom from economics imprisonment...
...True Stories has down-home flakes down pat, but here they are too pat. Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle...