No Memorial Days weekend surprizes. PR for
PIAZZA. May try to see.
No new reviews, Not planning to see anyhting this weeked.
Present Laughter, Noel Coward's 1939 play being revived at the Huntington is typical HTC middle-brow work done up brown. In this day and age there's not liable to be a better production. No challenges expect keeping the large cast straight. Brooks Ashmanskas wins the overacting award. The titular lead, Victor Graber almost gets one for underacting. The show has three acts and clocks in at at least 2 1/2 hrs. Lots of laughs, little substance.
No reviews today. Seeing
Present Laughter at HTC tomorrow. Rest of the week--who knows.
Well, the 9th Theatre Marathon ran its course. Good acting in general, more weak scripts that usual, and lower attendance. It's time to rethink a few apscts of this event for its 10th anniversary. Gurnet's
Dog Sees God has one more week at the BCA. The scripts a bit messy, could use cutting, but the arc of the show has real power.
Dog Sees God is a remarkably serious play for its premise that the the cast are teenage version of the Peanuts Gang, with barely disquised names. Definitely PG-13 or more, the cast does well enough with a rather rambling script.
The Globe has an incitefuul if not especially helpful review of the ART's current production of Pinter's 1975
No Man's Land. The production is certainly worth seeing for the acting and the direction, though liable to frustrate all but the most ardent Pineterphile.
