The remaining characters are the reliable Randy Oglesby’s Uncle Baites and Eliza Pryor’s Georgia. Pryor and Ott haven’t figured out how to give the gimpy Georgia balance between her troubled past and her present daffy quest. In fact, Ott does not seem to have found the right carburetor settings at which to blend the play’s meaning and craziness. The mixed blessing of having fraud and deception as message and motif is that plot twists that cut in to surprise have already been undercut by the early establishment of a world where everybody’s hiding something that eventually will come out.
CREDITS: by Beth Henley, directed by Sharon Ott. Ian Fraser, Matt McGrath, Betsy Brandt, Matt Letscher, Randy Oglesby, Eliza Pryor, Nike Doukas, Paul Vincent O’Connor. Hugh Landwehr, sets; Joyce Kim Lee, costumes; Peter Maradudin, lights; Stephen LeGrand, sound; Randall K. Lum, stage manager. South Coast Repertory Segerstrom Stage • October 20-November 19, 2006 • West Coast premiere
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