| "OH, MARY!" Tonight | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 10:53 pm EST 02/03/24 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:45 pm EST 02/03/24 | |
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| A real treat. Cole Escola's fractured take on Lincoln's wife Mary Todd had the very attractive audience and myself laughing hysterically. And what was even better, the laughter built as the play progressed. Escola has a pixieish magnetism that keeps honing in on the child's id, think of Pee Wee Herman crossed with Nellie Oleson. His Mary Todd Lincoln is funny but also convincingly destructive. There is a realism to Escola's ridiculousness. Does it raise the ghost of Charles Ludlam? Not really, the production which is very fine is also quite slick. But Escola has a shrewd comic ear for set up and pay off that he hangs the structure of his play on and it works remarkably well. It also has a comic economy. I hope Escola, as his talents become more known, will not be monopolized by the small screens. Here is someone who could revive the art of the stage farce. And I don't mean the post-modern quotation of the stage farce but the real item. |
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