We were in NYC anyway, so we decided at the last minute to see Tracy Lett's Superior Donuts. Unlike August: Osage County, which was set in rural Oklahoma and peopled with my people, SD is set in Chicago and peopled with urban misfits living on the margins. The play is well crafted and the production well conceived. The best performance was Jon Michael Hill's as the aspiring young writer trying to get out of a hole of gambling debt. From the opening moment, the play and cast held the audience in rapt attention.
Recommended.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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