NICE 'MICE'
posted by James Reel
Today’s Tucson Weekly holds two reviews by yours truly, one enthusiastic, the other ambivalent. First, the good news: Of Mice and Men at Beowulf Alley:
The entire production has been assembled with quiet care. The acting tends to be subtle and anti-melodramatic, yet heartfelt; the pacing is deliberate, yet never feels pokey. All in all, Beowulf Alley does a fine job of rescuing Of Mice and Men from its low status as required reading in high school English and an inspiration for lots of cartoon parodies.You’ll find the full review here. Then there’s Bell, Book and Candle at Live Theatre Workshop; the modern witch-in-love story hasn’t aged well:
We're dealing with a script that's spent the past 50 years as the high school senior play, and somehow, when it's brought out to mingle with the grown-ups, it just doesn't seem very racy or metaphoric anymore. It still has funny bits, though, as long as you don't mind English Van Druten making his Manhattanites all sound like London sophisticates. It's sort of like they're in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, but a bit less blithe.Read the rest here.
