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STAGE KISS Today

Posted by:	sergius 12:45 am EDT 03/31/14

Ruhl is funny and smart, and she's in top form here. STAGE KISS takes a dull conceit about the performative aspects of love and loving--as time goes by, a kiss is not still a kiss especially when actors are involved--and spins it into gold. This play might have been a good, blithe choice for Broadway. It's packed with fleet, comic invention and splendidly directed. Jessica Hecht, still channeling Sandy Dennis, is a surprisingly adept farceur, and the rest of the company is her equal. In the end, a madcap, drunken treatise on the difference between love and romance and how the theatre represents and misrepresents them, sobers up. Love requires closeness, of course, and romance, it turns out, needs distance. And, onstage and off, playing parts is essential for both. Ruhl has a talent for leavening her humor--it's good AND informed--with unexpected doses of real feeling. STAGE KISS is a total lark, but it's tender, too.

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