THE CONWAY DAILY SUN - 5/12/1994
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PORTENTS AND SIGNS FORECAST GOOD SUMMER
by Peter White
I see great portents and signs!
As I write this week's epistle, the gods have laid a great cosmic guitar pick across the face of the sun! A great darkness covers the land and a cold wind blows in from the west. The sun has changed from quarter-note sign to a FULL-NOTE!
We can clearly divine that the valley will experience an extraordinary summer of music and theater. So speaketh the Great Seer and Prophet who sometimes gets the listings a hundred percent accurate!
If the Actors' Theater Co. production of "Equus" is anything to go by, we really are in for a wonderful summer! The best way I could describe it at the end of their opening night last week was, "Wooomph!" It took my breath away!
"Equus" is clearly the best bit of acting I have ever seen at the Eastern Slope Playhouse! There was not one single weak characterization. ALL the cast was as strong as the next and from the audience's viewpoint, the timing was flawless. You would think that this cast was a bunch of hardened professionals and not a group of amateurs in little old North Conway! The intense plot-line totally absorbed the audience. I was not the only one who started to watch the acting techniques of cast member we knew personally and missed important lines! I have to see it again! Well done director, Dennis O'Neill!
"Big Bravo" to all the cast, especially Olga Morrill, Mary Johnson, and Lori Richardson. A "Standing Ovation" to Kevin Jones and "A Big Standing Ovation On Stilts" to young Monroe Mann, whose totally amazing performance belied the fact that this is only his third production, the other being school plays.
YOU MUST NOT MISS THIS PRODUCTION! Dennis has only budgeted for an average of 75 seats per night as he believes this type of play will not be popular to valley audiences due to the lack of song and dance routines! Is the valley that shallow? Naw, let's prove him wrong---you will love this play!
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