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Two Golden Age radio plays are freed from their audio-only captivity. While
it's a decent idea, both were better off before: There's just not enough
action in these one-acts. Dawn Seifert is game, playing a terrified invalid
in Sorry Wrong Number with fervor. Her fear and distress are palpable, but
in the end, suspense is lost because you can see the (lack of) action.
Likewise Broadway's My Beat: Two Bullets, Twice Dead, where the cast of
seven falls short of bringing the script alive. The direction is too static,
and the scene changes interrupt the flow of a story that was meant to unfold
without them. Dave Koenig and Mac Brydon try to pick up the slack with
humor, but the stiffness of their colleagues can't be ignored. This drama
needs some more melo-.
-- ELLEN CARPENTER
Old School Theater Company
Adapted by Dawne Seifert, directed by Gregg
Bellon.
Where:
The Mazer Theater, 197 East Broadway
When:
8/15 at 3pm, 8/17 at 9:30pm, 8/20
at 8:15pm, 8/24 at 1:45pm.
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