Usher Nonsense #2
Signature Theatre: Bill Irwin in "The Harlequin Studies"
If we are very good on this planet, we may get to visit the planet from which Bill
Irwin comes after we leave our bodies. In the mean time you can go to see him
perform.
He shares the stage with performers who don't care as vibrantly as he does,
however, which is too bad. There are several agile acrobats, one mediocre actor,
one OK actor and a woman who is there only because the plot of one story requires
her, but not by much as Irwin's other love interest is a coat rack.
The difference between Irwin and the rest of the cast is crystallized at
performance's closing when Irwin does a simple solo while the rest of the cast
looks on. In 60 or so seconds, Irwin makes us feel the spark that is pure life. You
will hear people sniffling in the audience for the beauty of it. Not bad.
The show is a little Marx Brothers, a little Garrison Keillor, a little Laurel and Hardy,
lasts 75 minutes without an intermission, and if you don't mind the boring bits of
flotsam - pick up the phone now - it closes October 25.
© 2003 Tulis McCall
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