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Black Rose. Harvard Square. 492-8630. College Party Night on Thursday, Nov. 4. Doshie Powers on Friday, Nov. 5. Jim Plunkett on Saturday...
Black Rose. Harvard Square. 492-8630. College Party Night on Thursday, Oct. 28. Legendary Lunch and Sinkhole on Friday, Oct. 29. Jim Plunkett on Saturday...
...first act is saved by the fine quality of the acting. E.G. Marshall plays a cranky Jacob Brackish with vigor and sternness. His Brackish is complex enough that you're never quite sure whether he is difficult because he's malicious or just because he has high standards. Maryann Plunkett had the audience laughing at her "wicked cool" Massachusetts accent from the moment she walks onstage. She demonstrates great range as Kathleen Hogan, sometimes crumpled in tears on her bed, other times ironing fanatically or gleefully switching the radio station to rap music when Brackish's hearing aid stops working...
...second act is much more emotional than the first, although some of it is highly implausible (some twenty years out of high school, Kathleen demands a makeup exam for her music appreciation class, which she gets a perfect score on this time around). In the first act, Marshall and Plunkett both develop their characters meticulously but in relative isolation; finally, in the second act, we see heated confrontation, intimate confessions, an intensification of their individual development through their interaction with each other...
...credit, it's singularly lacking in Broadway appeal--no fanfare, no special effects, no rollerskates. Things build in a naturally inconspicuous way--after all the carping and the hostile silences and the general ill-will, it's remarkable how touching the last few scenes are. Horovitz, Marshall, and Plunkett seem to agree on something rare in American theatre--the power of subtlety...