The Book of the Dun Cow
Lamb's Players enhances the themes (direction: Robert Smyth), soundscape (eerie noises and lyrical music: Deborah Gilmour Smyth), and the look (excellent costumes: Jeanne Reith) of Walter Wangerin's novel, a beast fable in which animals speak and evil looms everywhere. What the production needs in the first act is urgency. David Cochran Heath's Lord Russell Fox is a well-spoken narrator, but most scenes are static, expository set-ups for what's to come. The production finds focus in act two, when Cockatrice declares war on the "meek." Heath's Fox conjures up battles with words alone. And a fight scene absolves other sins. Lance Arthur Smith (a harried Chauntecleer) and Patrick J. Duffy (smarmy Cockatrice) go at each other with relish — 10 feet off the ground.
Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, May 15, 2011
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm |
| Tuesdays, 7:30pm |
| Wednesdays, 7:30pm |
| Thursdays, 7:30pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 4pm & 8pm |