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...Averell '02 is hilarious, yet somewhat unfittingly so, since as the only sane and honest person he should inspire more respect and fewer laughs. The father-son crime team is entertaining and carries well the grunt of violence and profanity in the play. A highlight worth mentioning is the kitchen decor, which cleverly incorporates many of the items that pop up in the dialogue. Tom's obsession with soup is made concrete by a stack of Campbell's and by the pervasiveness of the word "soup" on all the shopping lists that are on display. A pair of ice skates...
Their escapades take place in a kitchen which, like the family itself, has been running down since the father, Tom, an alcoholic police detective, abandoned his wife and three daughters 10 years before...
...play opens as Tom's wife Nora and her youngest daughter Gail find Gail's husband, Junior, lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor. From the first moment it is clear that Nora is off her rocker, an impression wonderfully conveyed by Brittani Sonnenberg '03, whose character manages to remain light and amusing even in the most insane situations. A case in point is the discovery of Junior's body. As Gail tries to help her husband, Nora talks incessantly, theorizing about calling 911, about the seriousness of Junior's bruises, about her relationship with Gail...
Midway through the play, the plot slows down considerably, yet this is made up for by a series of scenes showing the four starring women sitting around the kitchen table, nursing their neuroses and trying to set their family right. During this time, Mary Ann outs Elizabeth as a lesbian, Nora tries to reform Mary Ann with elaborate guilt trips about motherhood and Elizabeth frantically searches for any household product that can give her a quick high. The current of hostility running between the three sisters is sharp and well done. Less convincing are the few sentimental moments...
Charlie's Kitchen's has been a prolific confiscator this fall: a stack of swiped fakes about four inches high lies on a counter in a room behind...