Foggerty's Fairy
What if you could drink an elixir and erase a piece of your past? Even if the small change could cause others? Frederick Foggerty, hooked on Jenny Talbot, swigs away a former love affair and reshapes the present. W.S. Gilbert wrote the piece in 1881. It features his sculpted prose but needs a better third act (which depletes accumulated energy with static chatter). Last year Talent to aMuse did a spirited version of Gilbert's Engaged. Foggerty's falls far short of that standard. The actors, many going beyond the requisite broadness, speak far too quickly. But the literary style — the wit and Gilbert's verbal music — is the show. Pluses: George Weinberg-Harter's hand-painted sets; Sandy Hotchkiss Gullans's three fairies named Rebecca: one speaking French, another German, the third, Blanche DuBois.
When
Ongoing until Saturday, June 18, 2011
Hours
| Sundays, 7pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 8pm |