HOME Review
HOME
Performing Arts Insider
Richmond Shepard
December 28, 2006
The Actors Company Theatre, the finest play-reading group in NY, has just finished a fully-stage rendition of HOME by David Storey. In Act One, it is fascinating how the consummate actors, Larry Keith and Simon Jones, make trivial conversation riveting as the two men, with upper-level English accents, start conversational gambits and veer away from the subjects mid-subject, and then revert back. It's quite Beckettesque. In Act Two we have Cynthia Harris and Cynthia Darlow, with working class accents, and, once again it's a mystery to me how such uninteresting conversation can be so engaging. The play branches in Act Two, and mysteries are revealed. The play is all a delicate interweaving of characters who have a thin hold on reality whose lives are fading. Played in a perfectly designed garden by Mimi Lien, and masterfully directed by Scott Alan Evans, I was wonderfully transported by the work. Sorry you missed it.