Still, his cast acts smoothly in two languages (in-seat captioning, unobtrusive, is offered in both English and Spanish).
Jarry is played with angsty scowls by frequent Synetic Theater actor Ryan Sellers, and although Catherine Tripp's cast acts with mad glee at times, one-third of the small audience was gone after intermission on a recent Sunday afternoon.
At Roland's own private set in the Canadian wilderness (in a wild anachronism, he inherited his father's "high-tech" fortune), the cameras are wired to explosives, which he threatens to detonate unless the cast acts out his fantasies.
All of director Leora Morris's cast acts with "West Wing" energy on Daniel Ettinger's small rotating set, a grubby office that becomes a sophisticated wall of video images (by Rasean Davonte Johnson) during transitions that sweep the story back several years at a time.
The fellowship hall is located at 429 Cypress St. Acts include "Inside the Dead Actor's Studio," where audience members can choose the interviewee; "Ad Agency," where the audience creates mythical products that the cast develops ad campaigns for; and "Novel," where the cast acts out scenes in the style of authors called out by the audience.
A play in which the cast acts out the real immigration stories of family and friends would seem to have "Trump" written all over it, but "The New Colossus" — the latest from the Actors Gangg, directed by founding artistic director Tim Robbins — was actually workshopped during the Obama years in reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Such arguments stand within a long, undistinguished tradition of casting every act of everyday racism in Germany as evidence that the country stands permanently on the brink of the Fourth Reich.
Once walking, biking and taking the bus have been cast as acts of patriotism, it will be much easier to frame a tax on driving as patriotic.
The cast acted around a nonexistent character, which Mr. Mottola aimed to integrate seamlessly.
Fall uses real-life interviews as her words; the cast act with marvellous naturalness.
