Howell Child's Play
competent effort
Review by Paul Baker
Child's Play, which opened Friday and runs through next
Saturday at Howell Theatre, proves to be a competent effort
at a competent script.
The play takes place in a Catholic boys' school and centers
primarily around two middle-aged teachers and unexplainable
outbursts of violence from the students.
The two faculty members, Dobbs and Malley, are portrayed
superbly by Orlan Larson and Dana Mills, with laurels going to
Larson. He is a very consistent actor whose nuances of
characterization keep Dobbs real and alive every moment.
The scenes between these two are the best in the play, full
of fire and energy well worth seeing.
Another fine performance is turned in by Donovan Diez as
the cynical Father Penny. Diez displays fine comic technique
and proves an excellent balance to the other performers.
George Hanson, as sports instructor Paul Reese, begins slowly
and one is tempted to tune him out, but he grows with the
production and by the end is much more believable.
The weakest performances are given by John Kasel as
Father Griffin and James Waechter as Father Mozian. Their
acting comes across stilted and sometimes slows the show.
The set design, by Nancy Myers, is very. well conceived and
executed, adding a great deal to the production and
communicating in a very real way the dark atmosphere of the
school.
Complements also go to director Hal Ford for his execution
of a script that appears to be the major drawback of the
production. The playwrite, Robert Marasco, seems to be torn
between writing two plays - one a thrilling mystery built
around strange violence in a boy's school, the other a stirring
tragedy about two aging teachers, whose entire lives are based
upon respect and love of their boys. These two plays never
quite resolve themselves to satisfaction.
Child's Play runs without an intermission and fortunately
does not suffer for it. It is a production well worth seeing
(escpecially for Larson and Mills) and is guaranteed to provide .
an exciting evening of theater.
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