Verdict by Agatha Christie
Directed by Noel MacDuffie
The Heights Players
Weekends through November 18, 2012
Since 1957 the Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights have continually presented quality community theater, and their latest offering maintains the high standard theater-goers have come to expect from this venerable company. Verdict is a curio from British mystery writer Agatha Christie, famous for her whodunit novels, stage adaptations of those novels, and original plays (the most famous of which is Witness for the Prosecution).Verdict, written solely for the stage, is a psychological living room play in which a murder does occur, but regarding the perpetrator's identity there is nothing to figure out: the murderer is revealed bluntly and in no uncertain terms. The meat of the matter comes from the complications that follow that revelation.
The central character of the play is Karl Hendryk, a professor who along with his wife and her first cousin have immigrated to England,...
Directed by Noel MacDuffie
The Heights Players
Weekends through November 18, 2012
Since 1957 the Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights have continually presented quality community theater, and their latest offering maintains the high standard theater-goers have come to expect from this venerable company. Verdict is a curio from British mystery writer Agatha Christie, famous for her whodunit novels, stage adaptations of those novels, and original plays (the most famous of which is Witness for the Prosecution).Verdict, written solely for the stage, is a psychological living room play in which a murder does occur, but regarding the perpetrator's identity there is nothing to figure out: the murderer is revealed bluntly and in no uncertain terms. The meat of the matter comes from the complications that follow that revelation.
The central character of the play is Karl Hendryk, a professor who along with his wife and her first cousin have immigrated to England,...
- 11/9/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Still Life
By Alexander Dinelaris
Directed by Elizabeth Bove
Players Club, Royal Theater
August 2-5, 2012
Elisabeth Bove is a fine actor, as abundantly evident by the three plays in which she was featured and which I have reviewed on this site. Her portrayal of Ms. Venable in Suddenly Last Summer was particularly outstanding. She also appeared in a rollicking production of Larry Shue's venerable farce, The Foreigner, which was ingeniously directed by Noel MacDuffie. In Still Life, the tables have turned: Ms. Bove proves herself an excellent director and Noel MacDuffie, as a featured player, shows himself to be a skillful actor.
Still Life is an intriguing rumination, and moving examination of a group of Generation X'ers as they confront “What’s it all about?” -- romance, work, friendship, and mortality. The play centers on Carrie Ann (Leticia Diaz), a successful photographer, who, subsequent to her father’s death three months previously,...
By Alexander Dinelaris
Directed by Elizabeth Bove
Players Club, Royal Theater
August 2-5, 2012
Elisabeth Bove is a fine actor, as abundantly evident by the three plays in which she was featured and which I have reviewed on this site. Her portrayal of Ms. Venable in Suddenly Last Summer was particularly outstanding. She also appeared in a rollicking production of Larry Shue's venerable farce, The Foreigner, which was ingeniously directed by Noel MacDuffie. In Still Life, the tables have turned: Ms. Bove proves herself an excellent director and Noel MacDuffie, as a featured player, shows himself to be a skillful actor.
Still Life is an intriguing rumination, and moving examination of a group of Generation X'ers as they confront “What’s it all about?” -- romance, work, friendship, and mortality. The play centers on Carrie Ann (Leticia Diaz), a successful photographer, who, subsequent to her father’s death three months previously,...
- 8/20/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
The Foreigner
The Heights Players
The Foreigner is rock solid hilarious -- I have not laughed this hard or as continuously during a play in quite some time. The Foreigner, as performed by Brooklyn Heights' venerable theater company, is farce at its most pure: unrelentingly absurd, energetic, ridiculous, and downright funny. All the compounded twists and turns, all of the comic potential of the play written by the late Larry Shue, are artfully and skillfully displayed to the max by a spirited and talented cast, carried along by Noel MacDuffie's ingenious direction.
The premise is simple. In the early '80s, British Charlie Baker (Steve Velardi) is taken to a fishing lodge in Georgia by an old army buddy, Froggy LeSueur (William Barry). Charlie's marriage back in England is falling apart, according to him, due to the fact that he possesses no personality. Charlie is alarmed when he finds...
The Heights Players
The Foreigner is rock solid hilarious -- I have not laughed this hard or as continuously during a play in quite some time. The Foreigner, as performed by Brooklyn Heights' venerable theater company, is farce at its most pure: unrelentingly absurd, energetic, ridiculous, and downright funny. All the compounded twists and turns, all of the comic potential of the play written by the late Larry Shue, are artfully and skillfully displayed to the max by a spirited and talented cast, carried along by Noel MacDuffie's ingenious direction.
The premise is simple. In the early '80s, British Charlie Baker (Steve Velardi) is taken to a fishing lodge in Georgia by an old army buddy, Froggy LeSueur (William Barry). Charlie's marriage back in England is falling apart, according to him, due to the fact that he possesses no personality. Charlie is alarmed when he finds...
- 2/10/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
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