The Bullet Round

The David Mamet School For Boys **Photo credit: Lava Alapai**
August 7 - 23, 2009

Review by peanutduck

We create violence through careless personal collisions. Script’s still stuck on its platform; however, Megan Kate Ward’s keen ear and eye bring out play’s scathing linguistic and overt physical violence. Onstage relationships drag down action; actors feel mismatched, and, excluding the brothers, don’t connect. Gary Norman excels as arrogant father.

Dutchman

The David Mamet School for Boys
August 15 - 23, 2008

Review by peanutduck

1960s, subway car, white woman initiates game of abusive seduction with black man. Murray’s Lula teasingly gropes Clay while racial slurs roll off her tongue, yet Najieb’s Clay barely flinches. Emotional and/or sexual connection between actors is absent, preventing sense of mounting danger; thus, climax, rather than shocking, falls flat.