This week’s photo
Your clue: You may not have attended this university Shakespearean production, but one of these actors should spark a fat candlelight of remembrance.
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Last week’s photo
Your clue was: “We’re in the wrong season for this old-timey play, but if you knock on you know what, it might come to you.”
Our winner: Jeremy Cole was first to know that was Wade Wood, left, (now the proprietor of the Victorian Playhouse) and Bill Berry in Bernard Sabath’s “The Boys in Autumn.”
As he describes it, the men played “older, bitter versions of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer at the old Theatre at Muddy’s..
He added: “They actually got a CAR in that basement space somehow…”
I never saw this 1995 production, but I’m guessing that the Westword reviewer didn’t care for it. He wrote:
“Mark Twain spins fitfully in his grave every time Bernard Sabath’s execrable The Boys in Autumn plays again. Now this effort by a third-rate artiste to project his meager talents onto the work of one of his betters is playing at the Theatre at Muddy’s. If it weren’t so dull, it would be an outrage.
“Sabath’s work simply stinks, and the Theatre at Muddy’s production unfortunately does little to stanch the stench.
“Sabath takes two of Twain’s most memorable characters, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and portrays them as maudlin middle-aged men in search of a second childhood. When Tom meets Huck again after thirty or forty years, Tom is a convicted pederast who refrains from attacking any more little girls only because he fears the electric torture awaiting perverts in the mental institutions of the early twentieth century. Tom has no sense of responsibility to his victims, no glimmer of the meaning of his actions–his single clearest emotion is self-pity. Looking for someone to save him from himself, Tom finds Huck, who by now is an embittered old man hoping to be arrested for the mercy killing of his terminally ill wife. Huck is really awaiting the judgment of God, believing he is destined for hell.”
But, I say, it was a nice picture …
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