Grey Gardens

(tt)  Took this while having a coffee before the 3pm show of "Grey Gardens"

The production of "Grey Gardens" was wonderfully directed by Roger Hodgeman with a very inventive Richard Roberts set given the company's stringent budget costs. The clever feature was a huge blow up photo of the house  projected onto a scrim which was lit from behind at times to very eerie effect.

All the performances were excellent but Miss Rabe was particularly brilliant in capturing the lostness and intelligence of the trapped bird who is Little Edie. Nancye Hayes brought Big Edie to life with a humanity that balanced the manipulative monster she might have appeared to be.

  John O'May reeked of WASP venom. Bert LaBonte, Alex Rathgaber and Liz Stiles were fine support

 and James Millar very touching as Gould, the doomed lush.
Musically stunning. Kellie Dickerson led a great ensemble. I will add however that the original off-Broadway version of the piece with different songs and script was more touching and spare than the current one.