Prelude to a Kiss

Key Productions
September 12 - October 4, 2008

Review by peanutduck

Key Productions takes on Lucas’s (overwritten) exploration of gender’s role in sexual love. Staging is cramped - actors awkwardly navigate around furniture, family scenes find everyone squished together. Marked overacting; Rengert (Peter) without charisma; lovers’ attraction feels forced. Finke (Rita) spot on in second act; wished Blake had larger role.

Well of Horniness

Key Productions & Q Center
June 13, 2008

Summary:

A 9-person, high-camp, low-brow Sapphic murder mystery performance with one corpse, lusty lesbians, murderous dykes and mysterious women, in the cliff-hanging style of an old-time radio show. These ladies will take you on an adventure with nearly 50 characters. Who done it? Why? And will they get away with it?!

As Is

Key Productions at IFCC
December 7-22, 2007

December 6, 2007
Posted by peanutduck

Once considered timely, script now teeters towards maudlin. Production plays the ending - often overwrought; uncertain voice; parallel scenes muddled; last half hour, weeping and wailing; Rich, central P(erson) W(ith) A(IDS), awkward; ensemble disconnected. Hope? Yes: cast committed, professional; give them two weeks to rise above direction. Watch Jill Westerby.

Can’t Say I Do

Key Productions
Posted by Followspot January 14, 2007; closes January 20, 2007

Soft-core, uninciteful activist theatre. What worked: natural pickings of Ian Anderson-Priddy, Meredith Weber. What needed work: otherwise uneven casting with barren stagings of duplicative refrains. Faster pace, tighter scene changes, interlaced codas, edginess might’ve kept gappy performance from repeatedly losing momentum. Technical elements: if you can’t make good, go without.