According to the press release for the Hollywood Fringe Festival premiere of Hitchcock Lane (viewed in a streaming feed from Studio/Stage), Soda Persi has written a a number of short scripts in the past few years. She has connected them now as snapshots of neighbors on the title street. The show is a series of short scenes, each featuring two actors. The couples range from married to dating, from father/daughter to strangers in a park. There is a long-married couple where the wife now feels she is only a caregiver to her wheelchair bound husband. There is a father who finally reveals the truth to his teenage daughter that his wife/her mother did not die of a drug overdose as she has long believed. There is a couple on the verge of a breakup who try to rekindle what they had. There is a “meet cute” couple—she catches him staring at her butt from his park bench.
Persi has misnamed her play. Hitchcock denotes mystery, suspense, adventure, excitement. These little snippets of day-to-day life are tried and true and trite. They really offer no new insight into the human condition. Hackneyed Lane would be more appropriate. However, the dedicated conviction of director Richard Piatt and his cast make the endeavor worthwhile. The few songs (music by Michael Van Bodegom Smith) and the balletic choreography by Persi contribute more mood, emotion, atmosphere, longing and loss than the spoken word. This material might land better with less talk, more song and dance.
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