Showing posts with label Bump in the Road Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bump in the Road Theatre. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2005

Adventures in Ill-Care

Bump in the Road Theatre
May 26, 2005; closes June 4, 2005

Honorable intentions to illuminate vital, timely issues of health care didn’t really provide any new information, new understanding or new tools to act with. Vaudeville-like performance seemed ill at ease in its circus trappings; maybe take it darker? Chris Graham made me feel a little better as a Greyish Ringmaster.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

The Waiting Room

Bump in the Road Theatre
February 19, 2005

Social-problem theatre often diagnoses message at expense of story, dulling points of both. What’s really farce was doctored too straight. Excise slow fades, innumerous scene changes; prescribe holistic staging — at least blackouts on unit set – to maintain alert comedy, conscious throughline. Adrienne Flagg’s Wanda managed to recover humanity in charade.