Word: wigemark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Theater Project, Cradle was censored by its federal "employers," who refused to allow the actors to set foot on stage, so the pianist played while actors spoke the lines from their seats in the house. There are rough edges in this production, notably the awkward casting of Lars Gunnar-Wigemark as two very different characters in back-to-back scenes, and roughest among them remains the attempt to square things with the present. But the illusion holds, strongly enough so that it would hardly be a surprise if an audience member or two stood up to do his own yelling...
...Knife, for instance, turns in a performance steaming with violence and malice, and the Weill songs, despite some weakness in the orchestra, wound and horrify as they must. But there are other, less conventional strengths, each illuminating enough of the production to carry it past awkward moments. Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, snarling and slobbering as he narrates, inspires awe and terror even when he enters unexpectedly carrying a bright pink can of Tab; and Martha Hackett as Jenny, Macheath's favorite whore, provides the evening's most gripping moments in her two songs. --Amy E. Schwartz...
Alison Taylor as Alura has a fine voice and carries herself with a swanky, haughty boredom. Together with Lars-Gunnar Wigemark as her lover Max, the two make a fine pair of oblivious, infighting villians. The U.S. Army fares a bit poorer, though, again due to the failings of the book. Sellon has deliberately written the show without any main characters, and thus the three U.S.O. couples are not developed as separate entities to a sufficient degree. Howard Cohen as Hiram Parts stands out from the group, but in all, the characters tend to get lost in the shuffle...
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