Opening salvo, hot take: everything Tom Stoppard has ever written is incredible; this isn’t his best work. The Real Inspector Hound is the first live production of a Stoppard play I ever saw, followed about a year and a half later by Arcadia. So, I will always be grateful to Hound for preparing me, because otherwise Arcadia might have melted my brain, and working directly with Tom (humblebrag) on The Coast of Utopia would have been the actual death of me. Hound is a delight. […]
A Tale Oft Told of Hubris, Lust and Greed (Cannonball!)
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of common sense. – Wikipedia Noir Fiction is about losers, not private eyes. – Otto Penzler, author. Slap Noir starts off perfectly blending slapstick and mystery as the reader jumps from scene to scene – culminating in an explosion, a wreck, a shooting, a heart attack, and a little girl crying for reasons unknown. It is revealed that five of the most prominent members of a small West Texas town are […]