Author: Tom Williams

Theatre Reviews

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

The play is based on the infamous 1782 epistolary novel of sexual intrigue and ruthless manipulation set in pre-Revolutionary France. The action centers around two high-powered friends, the Vicomte de Valmont (played by Nick Sandys) and the Marquise de Merteuil (played by Rebecca Spence) who develop a game to test their well-seasoned skills as lovers.

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Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

The Illusion

In one of the finest productions I’ve ever witnessed at Court Theatre, director Charles Newell’s passion for Baroque metatheatricality comes across in a splendid, throughly engrossing, production of The Illusion running through April 11, 2010. This is a “can’t miss show!”

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Opera

Winterreise

“Winterreise” poses more of a challenge as the white box theater is much smaller, but the result is a heightened sense of intimacy more so than constriction. With nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, the 20-some-odd people in the near-sell-out audience and the 5 performers fall into a tangled symbiotic web,…

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Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

J. B.

This play-within-a-play has a wealthy banker – J.B. goes from a happy prosperous family man with a fine wife and a hose full of children to a hopeless and desperate man devoid of all family members. It is the ultimate man’s test of faith.

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Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

Legion

The Lieutenant is faced with a series of grisly murders resembling the work of a dead serial killer. It takes until act two to get us to meet Damien or Sunlight – the essence of true evil nicely played to the hilt by the terrific Scott T. Barsotti.

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Trust

Trust plays on stage like a screenplay with many short scenes deftly using the video and live stage action to tell the story of a upper middle class family steeped in contemporary technology. We meet Annie (the amazingly truthful Allison Torem) as the 14 year old high school freshman who loves soccer and Internet chat.

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Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

The Informer

Veteran actor Turk Muller plays Gippo in a stirring performance filled with a richly authentic Irish brogue and a truthful depiction of a guilt-ridden drunkard. Muller has the blarney, the alcoholic attributes and the bewildering realization that his 30 years in the IRA has gotten him nothing–not even a place to sleep.

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