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the bed
By Nikos Vlachos
Directed by Sandra Zielinski
Produced by The Bed Poductions Inc.
At Victory Gardens Geenhouse Theatre
2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL
Call 773-871-3000, tickets $35 - $45
Thursdays & Fridays at 7:30 pm
Saturdays at 4 & 8:30 pm
Sundays at 2:30 pm
Special Valentine’s Day performance, Feb. 14 at 7:30 pm
Running time is 2 hours, 10 minutes with intermission
Through February 25, 2007
The Bed is an exercise in vanity theatre
Nikos Vlachos, a practicing medical doctor, has written a play that is a cliché-ridden rip off of The Four Poster featuring the life of a couple who marry and live out their lives sleeping on a large four posted bed. This terrible, unoriginal work featured Andy Luther as Joe and Madelon Guinazzo as Sara--two medicore actors who never establish enough stage chemistry to be believable. Featureing video montages of photos of the family through time and a cellist (William Jason Raynovich), the bed is a tedious, predictable look at a marriage of an emerging portrait artist and his wife. This work has nothing dramatic nor worthy to say as it plods from one tiresome sit-comish scene to another in a threadbare show filled with hollow characters. This boring work is the ultimate height of vanity theatre.
This play has nothing to say, is poorly acted and a total waste of time. I find it hard to believe that anyone at Millikin University and the School of Theatre at Illinois State University championed this dreck. The best part of this show was the solo cellist performance. There should be a rule against vanity theatre. I guess if you have money, anything can be produced. The bed is a waste of time, money and theatre space.
Not Recommended
Tom Williams
tom99@chicagocritic.com for comments
Talk Theatre in Chicago podcast
Date Reviewed: January 25, 2007
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