| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
THEATRE: Cash On Delivery Delivers Laughter A review by Robert Stone Cash On Delivery by Michael Cooney opened at Kentucky Repertory Theatre in Horse Cave Friday night two weeks ago. It is a farce which means lots of doors, mistaken identities, unlikely arrivals, and spur of the moment explanations which require further unlikely explanations. Dylan Myers is Eric Swan who has been having an affair with government services and keeping it a secret from his wife. It started innocently enough. An unemployment check for a boarder who had moved away arrived and Eric was without money. Assuming a new identity and cashing the check was no trouble. It was only to be that one time but the next month Eric still had no job. When the play opens Eric now has a houseful of fictional welfare recipients and stacks of paperwork upstairs and the strain of keeping up so many identities is beginning to get to him. He decides to kill them off one by one. Alas, it is also the day that Mr. Jenkins a government agent decides to show up in person to ask a few simple questions and get a couple of signatures which he must witness. Dirk Fitzgerald as Jenkins maintains his focus on doing what his job requires as circumstances around him spiral out of control. Shawn Knight plays Norman McDonald, the real flesh and blood boarder, who is drawn reluctantly by Eric into being the characters whom the government agents want to see. This requires a range of emotions and Shawn shows them all to us. The keys to a delightful farce are fast pace, split-second timing as the characters respond to each other, and the actors' investment in the characters they are portraying. Fred Willecke directs with a sure hand, the actors do not rush the lines but also do not drag the action, and we can believe both the real people and the fictional welfare recipients they are pretending to be. Paul Glodfelter maintained classic dignity as Mr. Forbright, the undertaker, who, knowing there was an official notice and an opportunity for profit, was not overly concerned with whether the corpse was actually a "dead" body. Donna Freeburn kept her personal dignity as Ms. Cowper, the supervisor of the government services, who, knowing that admitting having been deceived for months would make her look bad, offers the deceiver Eric a job to ferret out other frauds. Why is it so easy to believe all these improbabilities? We all have a little chill of anxiety when we have to deal with government agencies. We all have a daydream about getting the better of those bureaucrats who pay more attention to the rules than to personal crises. We all on occasion have the opportunity to pick up a little cash that we are not quite sure we deserve. So we can laugh at what would happen if things went too far, the fantasy of it all and the relief that we ourselves didn't go overboard. There was plenty of laughter in the audience, even some where the next action was being anticipated. The music being played as the audience was being seated was up-tempo. If by chance you should stop laughing during the play, just go on outside. You won't have to leave quietly because all the action on the stage and all the merriment in the audience will cover up your exit. Cash On Delivery will run through November 16 in repertory with other plays. For further information, call Kentucky Repertory Theatre at 1-800-342-2177. This story was posted on 2008-09-21 14:31:30
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Local Arts Scene:
Sir Erwin 2008 wins best attired in State Fair Karaoke contest KY Arts Council seeks nominations for Poet Laureate Dream Depot presents Gospel Music Gaither Style Reminder: Elder Z.T. Williams performance starts at 6:30pmCT Women artists, art preservationist workshop tonight at ACPL An American Idol odyssey: 3 from CU try out CU School of Music invites public to final concert of summer Gradyville Sculptor David Waltz to be at KY Artisan Center, Berea Wet Art Exhibit coming to Riverstone in Somerset, KY Women Artist Enrichment Grant Workship at ACPL View even more articles in topic Local Arts Scene |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
