Category: Archives (Charleston City Paper)
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College of Charleston’s Macbeth, Review
Like a poser at a pop concert, I get really excited for the ‘hits’: “Foul is fair, and fair is foul.” Oh yeah. “Something wicked this way comes.” Oh, cool. “Out, damned spot.” Right. “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,” “sleep no more,” “full of sound and fury….” How can anyone not have a good time,…
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The Have Nots! Have Lots, Piccolo Spoleto Review
…Another scene had Rucker and Finch playing a premise completely devised by the audience — acting out “that famous Australian custom of flossing after sex.” This is when the night becomes great. Audience members have the goofiest things to say, and as Tavares says, “we try not to turn anything down.” So what you get…
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Review of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Scotland Road, at Footlight Players
These sorts of plays are for those who like Richard Foreman or David lynch. There are insightful, sublime and terrifying moments, but many that just make you go, “huh?” A cutesy-da-da weirdness thing that makes you wonder if you’re missing something, so you think-think-think like Winnie the Pooh until you come up with a million…
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You Can’t Take It with You
“You Can’t Take It with You” has several plotlines that make for light, romantic farce — dealing with a young couple’s dilemma over their contrasting families and a kind, old anarchist’s dilemma over taxation — but the real meaning is in the title of the play.
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A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Review
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College of Charleston’s Much Ado About Nothing
“Is Much Ado About Nothing a flowery, two and a half hour “Three’s Company” episode? Yes. Is it a smattering of ideas and humor and complicated characters that are well-acted and directed? Yes. …”
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry, Charleston City Paper review, April 1999
“Altogether, they’re an outstanding ensemble, one of the best all-around casts I’ve seen in Charleston.”
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Charles Busch’s Psycho Beach Party, review
“Besides the funniest script this year with the best acting, you get dance numbers … Metts opens the show with some sexy freak-out strobelight hula hoop madness that gets everyone rocking.”
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Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, review
1998 Archives My Charleston City Paper review of Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, produced by the College of Charleston, October, 1998. Follow S.E. Barcus on Facebook.
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Frankenstein at the Charleston Stage Company, a review
“… philosophical and theological questioning, Prometheus, intricate plot-weaving, creative use of her contemporary scientific ideas on vitalism and electricity, and fine, fine terror — all mixed up by a 17-year-old, 175 years ago. Just unbelievable. Mozart-prodigy-unbelievable. Godwin and Wollstonecraft, you done us good.”
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