Jack Goes Boating
A tale of two relationships. One's just beginning, the other's hardened vets after five years of affairs and disillusion. Bob Glaudini's savvy comedy asks: how do you kindle, and rekindle, love? Under Claudio Raygoza's capable direction a quartet of actors turn in fine performances, their New York accents and attitude firmly in place. Steven Lone and Sara Beth Morgan keep Clyde and Lucy (the older couple) on two levels: the surface, where ganja and lines of coke hold demons at bay; and down below, where demons threaten to revolt. Brian Mackey's Jack had blond pseudo-dreadlocks (his mantra is Jimmy Cliff's "Rivers of Babylon") and a compulsion to improve, as a cook, boater, and lover. Rhianna Basore's cursed Connie (who's practically a magnet for malice) takes understandably small steps. Denis De Rougemont said, "Happy love has no history." Neither, you hope, will Jack and Connie. But then again, people probably hoped the same for vein-bulging Jack and seething Lucy way back when.
Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Saturday, October 9, 2010
Hours
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 4pm & 8pm |