Playing in rep with Lee Blessing's A Body of Water at off-Broadway's 59E59 is Love Child, written and performed by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton, a two-hander about show business that takes place backstage, on stage and in the audience. The two versatile actors play about twenty characters between them - actors, agents, audience members, relatives, male and female.
Jenkins and Stanton are accomplished caricaturists with a plethora of voices and physicalities. They try for virtuoso performances but try too much, and lose differentiation, especially among the female characters. Love Child is all nonsense and mostly fun, but it goes on too long as they attempt to dazzle us with their comic abilities.
The non-set (several mismatched chairs) by Neil Patel, lighting by Jeff Croiter and Grant Yeager are just fine. Director Carl Forsman could have adjusted the pace - and maybe added a couple of hats.
Previews:
October 12, 2008
Opened:
October 26, 2008
Ended:
November 19, 2008
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Primary Stages
Theater Type:
off-Broadway
Theater:
59E59 Theaters
Theater Address:
59 East 59 Street
Phone:
212-279-4200
Website:
primarystages.com
Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Carl Forsman
Review:
Cast:
Daniel Jenkins & Robert Stanton
Technical:
Set: Neil Patel; Costumes: Candice Donnelly; Lighting: Jeff Croiter. PR: O&M Co.
Critic:
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed:
October 2008
