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| Logan Watters (center) and Cast Photo courtesy of Ronin Theatre Company |
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"Eugene O'Neill's powerful drama The Hairy Ape is a scathing portrait of the conflict among the classes and a searing depiction of the reality of how the working class can never rise to the top because they aren't in power. It centers around Yank, a macho coal stoker working on a transatlantic ocean liner who has a run-in with a rich socialite. With a passionate cast, Ronin Theatre Company's production is as raw, angry, rebellious and aggressive as Yank....director Skip Emerson has wisely chosen to use an ensemble of seven actors to play all of the parts. This gives a fantastic energy and raw feeling to the play as well as a connectivity between the classes in how the ensemble members morph between playing members of both the upper and working classes as well as a group of caged apes that Yank encounters at the zoo. Emerson's staging on the minimal set is also fresh and engaging, with the ensemble moving around the audience as well as leaping around the stage and the audience at times in a manner resembling the title animal." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)
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