Review: Krapp's Last Tape AND Hughie by Actors Theatre Austin

by Michael Meigs
Published on May 10, 2015

Performed on the near-empty black box stage with a short intermission these two pieces complement one another, each opening the shadowy doors of memory and self-delusion.

There are few things more disturbing and moving than the sight of a mild-mannered funnyman in despair. Michael Stuart's always a welcome presence on Austin stages. A tall man with a large frame, gently balding pate and subtle smile, he's always turning up in reassuringly comic or quirky roles, particularly at the Austin Playhouse. The tut-tutting Lord Summerhayes in Shaw's Misalliance; Angus the dreamy mentally handicapped Canadian farmer in Hyde Park Theatre's The Drawer Boy; …

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