Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick Shanley...
Though director Jeremy Blumenthal has assembled an excellent cast overall, certain performances are especially appealing. In Shanley's Welcome to the Moon, Marwan Haddad perfectly juxtaposes the roles of an insecure teenager and a man who can't even kill himself successfully, switching from adolescent angst to teary hysteria with ease...
Greg Schaffer gives another of the production's most powerful performances. As the Cowboy in one scene from Welcome to the Moon, even Schaffer's simplest declarations ("Yes, I've killed a man.") are hilarious. In The Zoo Story, his passionate portrayal of Jerry, the embittered New Yorker who believes that "God turned his back on the whole thing some time ago," leaves the audience as fascinated by his theories as it is disgusted by their substance. Schaffer's mimed battles with the landlady's dog are especially superb. He bites off his words and takes pleasure in the revulsion...
...When, four decades ago...T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he seemed pure zenith, a colossus...fixed in the firmament like the sun and the moon," Ozick writes...
...weekend run of three one-act plays by Stoppard, Stanley and Albee runs at the Adams House Kronauer Space Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday night at 10 p.m. The show will include performances of A Separate Peace, Welcome to the Moon, and The Zoo Story...