I'm back for a bit. It was lovely to see DRs SINGDAW, FJL, and the always companionable JoseS, as well as the talented Skip Kennon, whose music was beautiful and whose accompanying was stupendous. This was program of four one-act plays, all well staged and well-performed. I wasn't wild about all four, but none of them were slipshod and amateurish in the writing or direction.
My only quibble with Skip's one-act was that it needed more staging than the playwright wanted: I got tired of watching the actor and actress playing James M Barrie and his wife sit, sip tea, talk and sing. A footman serving them, or some movement from them around the table, might have livened things up a bit. The music was quite lovely with some wonderful moving inner lines in the accompaniments. I thought Ann Talman was just right - proper, a little fragile, reminding me a bit of Mary Tyrone - and John Hickock was a perfect match, with a nice Scots accent.
