to the full Committed * Cherry Lane Theatre.

to the full Committed * Cherry Lane Theatre, of the present day York City (open run) * Written through Becky Mode * Directed by dint of Nicholas Martin * Starring Mark Setlock

The first off-Broadway hit of the fresh century, Fully Committed, creates more tension than a James fetters suspense caper, and it's more thrilling than a circus high-wire act--and this is a one-man exhibit to we're talking about here!

Playwright Becky style takes us into the cruddy town-house basement of a four-star restaurant forward the upper east side of Manhattan where a low resevations clerk fields calls all day from 17 varieties of hyterics, tourists, and VVVIPs who just have to be a table tonight at the trendies eatery in town. This basement is undivided of the circles of hell Dante failureed to mention, and its individual inhabitant is Sam Peliczowski, an aspiring actor from southward Bend, Ind., struggling to support his addiction to auditioning.

The amazing Mark Setlock (whose previous claim to fame was understudying Angel in tear on Broadway) plays not solitary Sam but also every bodily form he's in contact with according to phone, intercom, and hot line. With no more than his voice, carcass language, and an occasional lighting hint he can be the coked-up maitre d' Jean-Claude or the name-dropping socialite Bunny Vandevere or the high-strung Bryce! from Naomi Campbell! who's coming in with 15 tribe on Saturday night and extremitys an all-vegan tasting menu thanks a trillion!

As crisis piles onward crisis, you keep waiting for the whole thing to rap up or for Sam to scream "Fuck you!" and walk disclosed But the show is not at any time that predictable. Mode and Setlock who dress uped up the characters together, and wizardly (and frankly gay) director Nicholas Martin have created a madcap comedy with a human heartbeat. It's all the more horrifying because you know this kind of insanity actually goe upon day after day in the real world among population who probably ought to be completely committed to a mental institution.

Shewey is the editor of revealed Front: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Plays, Published according to Grove Press.

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