Maker of Odds and Sods

Play Reviews

Reviews are of play scripts, written with a mind to how appropriate they are for performance at TheaterWorks Hartford.

Chester Bailey by Joseph Dougherty

This is a well-told story. It is not a particularly earth-shatteringly new and different story (young man is horribly maimed, refuses to believe it, is committed, doctors try to convince him of the truth until the doctor finally recognizes how much better off the young man is living in his fantasy world (and one would have thought that was obvious from the start)). It is also not a particularly theatrical story. There are two actors; there is very little interaction between them; they just tell the story. Sound familiar?

Alexandra Wahl