Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap a photograph--what the young man describes as a "me picture"--while urinating on the human pile of garbage he has just created...
...plays that make up The War Years, appearing in the Kronauer Space of Adams House this weekend only. Directed by Laurence Thomsen and produced by Sean O'Brien, the production makes optimal use of a subterranean crypt that only the hippest theater artiste could consider a legitimate stage...
...presented by the difficult and un-idiomatic scripts. Danny O'Keefe is particularly plausible as Kelsey's enthusiastic buddy in "Hoorah" and even better as the martyred intellectual Jozef in "Soup." Whether playing a drunk marine or a pensive exile, O'Keefe frequently is the only believable character on stage...
Adam Fratto, however, receives the highest praise that a critic can heap upon a thespian. This man--yes, ladies and gentlemen, this very man--not only consumes but actually keeps down a whole can of beer pounded in five seconds flat on stage. This after half a case of beer has already been consumed by the cast of six. Sure, it's not much of a feat for a Friday night, but these guys still have another one-act to go. Kudos...
...performers were on their best behavior, doing one or two tunes with eagerness and then getting off the stage to keep the show moving forward. Few bothered to promote upcoming concerts and few preached that we were very special to turn out in such great numbers for a charity affair...