By Alan Sherrod It is tempting to describe Liz Duffy Adams’ comedy, Dog Act, in terms of other familiar post-apocalyptic scenarios—like “Mad Max goes on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and performs Vaudeville.” However, the fact is that Dog Act,…
Review: A Search for Identities in Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘Hir’
By Alan Sherrod As the lights come up on Taylor Mac’s Hir, which opened last Friday at Flying Anvil Theatre, the audience may believe for an instant that it has stumbled onto a contemporary update of the typical dysfunctional…
Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ at Flying Anvil Theatre
Things aren’t going well for Casey, a less-than-successful Elvis impersonator in a less-than-successful, if not seedy, beach bar in Panama City, Florida. In fact, things are so bad, Casey and his wife, Jo, are facing eviction, and the bar’s owner, Eddie, is hoping Elvis would leave the building. Truly, things are looking downright dismal for Casey when Eddie’s cousin, a drag queen named Miss Tracy Mills, arrives to save the failing bar with a “new” type of act.
Review: ‘Mary’s Wedding’ – A Dream of Romance and War
A dream forms the structure of Stephen Massicotte’s play, Mary’s Wedding, which opened last weekend at Flying Anvil Theatre—and it is very much the poet’s dream. However, Massicotte has not penned a purely romantic story, but has also made a…
Review: Into the Woods with Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Love Talker’
The hypnotic drone of cicadas smoothed over by a warm Appalachian mountain breeze; sun-dappled fields of tall grass that give way to dark, forbidding woods; a simple cabin of rough-hewn boards inhabited by two sisters at the mercy of their…