Word: spore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage. Set in the seedy lobby of a third-rate Broadway hotel during the summer of 1928, the play features an aging gambler who lost his luck when Hughie, the night clerk, died. Erie Smith (John Bottoms) tells his tale to the new night clerk, Charlie Hughes (Richard Spore) who also appears near death. Erie's monologue is interrupted briefly throughout by Charlie's thoughts, spoken aloud, and by off-stage sounds like fire engines and subway rumblings...
...ACTORS seem entirely in tune with Belgrader's approach. Standouts in the almost uniformly excellent company include Thomas Derrah's lightning-tongued Touchstone and Richard Spore as the older shepherd Corin, with a voice as flat as Indiana. Jeremy Geidt takes the roles of both dukes, usurper and sylvan exile, by storm: he gives the former a spoiled-child bossiness and, right before the intermission, some stage business that is genius; the latter becomes a flabby, affected patriarch who can't pronounce his "r"s and who jigs off in a trance like some elderly discohopper...