Introducing Bay Street Theater's current production on Saturday night, of Charles Ludlam's 1983 breakout masterpiece The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, the actor Richard Kind had to kill time.
It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly".
And it's true that his father, Booth Dolan, is an actor in dreadful movies, as an extension of his general theatricality.
Jekyll's Gina Bellman gamely throws herself into the part of Sophie Devereaux, a wannabe actor who is dreadful on stage but unbeatable when grifting out in the real world.
They're also actors in the dreadful little historical pageant that the place puts on for tourists.
The tenderest scenes are those in which Bottom and his fellow actors perform their deliciously dreadful play for the court nuptials.
A darkly-funny jaunt through the misadventures of two shabby London actors as they navigate dreadful weather, pervy uncles and their drug and alcohol abuse.
Has a director spent weeks fostering an actor's genius, or is a dreadful performance down to the actor following, to the letter, wrongheaded directions?
