FringeNYC Review - time, et. al.: a cautionary tale about love and time travel - Time Entertains Despite Gaps in the Continuum
By Andy Propst on Aug 22, 2008 | In Tri-State, ATW News, ATW News | Send feedback »
Love doesn’t conquer all, and time doesn’t heal all wounds we discover in time, et. al.: a cautionary tale about love and time travel.
Clara (Lucy Owen) lives in 1925 and wants to escape an unwanted marriage. William (Stuart Luth), rooms with his time-travel-movie-junkie brother Theodore (Jedediah Baker) in the present. Love grows via a journal that transcends decades in an old trunk and dream meetings in a place that contains doors to both of their worlds. Clara enters William’s world, but soon misses hers.
The script by Gil Varod and Jennifer Lynn Jordan contains some sharp humor, well executed under Shannon Fillion’s direction. There are quantum leaps in the writing, however. Clara’s “master spirits,” 87 prior lives and unfamiliarity with an alarm clock make her seem otherworldly rather than from the past. The trunk seems a rewrite of the mailbox in the movie The Lake House and the ending veers into a cliché wrap-it-up instead of the classy twist where it seemed headed.
It’s a cute idea that might improve with editing – and time.
---- Lauren Yarger
Presented by OBERON, INC. as part of The New York International Fringe Festival at THE CONNELLY THEATER, 220 East 4th St., NYC. [remaining performance Aug. 23 9:45p.m.]
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