Durang's The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
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Jeremy
There's a temptation to say "The Actor's Nightmare was," but the lead actor, Mr. Miller, was quite good. Much of the performances in both pieces was -- to be kind -- amateur level play-acting. Why, oh, why do so many young Hollywood actors feel it is permissable acting to speak in such low intimate non-projected voices (below Sotto Voce), as though they were on a set with a boom mike?Written on Jul 25 2011
Some of the blame can be laid on the director and acting coaches for not getting the actors to "project to the last row." or on the person who passes out the pre-show Prozac backstage.
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Being generous with the 3-star rating. The first play, as eluded to by the previous reviewer 'just didn't work'. The idea of an actor not knowing what play he was in and which character he's playing sounds like a humorous premise but it wasn't. I can't tell you if it was the writing or the acting or the direction (tend to blame the director) but it was torture watching this play. "Sister Mary" was better. I'd seen it decades ago at the Las Palmas Theater and it was presented differently: audience members were included in the Q&A instead of being passive observers and that was a better format. The actors didn't seem to know their lines; or at least they didn't say them with much commitment and then there was the 'prop gun' that failed to 'go off' unless the trigger was pulled 3 times in rapid succession. I talked my friend into going to see these 3 plays and he hasn't talked to me since. Nice theater, btw (I'd never been there before). Bottom line: better preparation would have been appreciated and a more critical eye on behalf of the director(s).Written on Jul 27 2011
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tommy henderson
We left during the intermission, it was that bad. There was a clear de-boggle between the writer and director. The idea was interesting but it never worked, I felt badly because I NEVER laughed and I could not force myself to stay for the second half because the first was so BAD.Written on Jul 26 2011
It lacked believability and spontaneity. Timing is so critical to humor and it was sorrowfully lacking
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DOMA Theatre Company, the producers of the recent L.A. hits Pippin and Cabaret, present a hilarious Christopher Durang double feature.
The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang
George Spelvin finds himself onstage with the news that he has to understudy for an actor in a play he never learned his lines for, can't find the costume and knows nothing about! Suddenly finding himself and the lines, the dream becomes a reality as he waits for the axe to drop.
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You by Christopher Durang
Sister Mary, assisted by 7-year-old student Thomas from Our School of Perpetual Sorrow, gives you a lecture on all the tenets of Catholicism, including heaven and hell, who goes to Limbo, the stories of Sodom and her personal life. All goes well until she receives an unexpected visit from four ex-students to perform the traditional Christmas pageant. The four students eventually provide Sister with the stories of how their lives have turned out, and she finds the best solution she knows.