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EVIDENCE ROOM PRESENTS Cast Alec Sneddon - Jason Adams Director - Bart DeLorenzo Producer - Burr Steers Graphic Design - Jonathan Liebhold April 27 - June 28, 1996
Christian Leffler (Fraser) and Alicia Hoge (Janice)
Jason Adams (Alec Sneddon)
The end Reviews Los Angeles Times The Evidence Room in Culver City is the perfect setting for The Life of Stuff by Simon Donald. A former warehouse, the space is now a versatile theater still surrounded by the warehouse’s distinct and looming shell. In fact, the play, about the brutal machinations of a group of Scottish gangsters, takes place entirely within a warehouse. Designer Jason Adams’ dark and foreboding setting, imaginatively lighted by Chad Smith, seems both limitless and claustrophobic, a perfect visual metaphor for the "underworld." Yet this is not the underworld of Jimmy Cagney movies. It is the Pit, a point made clear by Bart DeLorenzo in his crafty, remorseless staging. The performances are torrid, particularly Matthew Sheehan’s as a wannabe thug intent on establishing a criminal empire. Laura D’Arista and Jane Edith Wilson, who play unemployed, drugged young party girls, provide welcome comic relief in this grim "black comedy."– F. Kathleen Foley |
