Review: Bombs in Your Mouth by Hyde Park Theatre

by Michael Meigs
Published on March 28, 2009

They fill in the six-year void, unemployed Danny with stories of their father's decline and Lily with horror stories of work in a New York ad agency. She is smarter than Danny -- but in fact no more successful.

Losers are just more interesting than winners.There are just so many ways that they can go wrong. And it's so satisfying to watch as that happens. That's part of comedy -- that's why we laugh when the clown slips on the banana peel or when Moe gives the other stooges a savage poke. We chortle because we know that they're not really hurting.And in Bombs in Your Mouth by Corey Patrick, now playing at the Hyde Park …

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Review: Blackbird, by Hyde Park Theatre

by Michael Meigs
Published on October 03, 2008

There is a virtually musical rhythm to this dialogue. Clash, stacatto, cacophony and speaking past one another, listening, interrupted thoughts, a sharp dig of angry humor. . . .

I am beginning to see the pattern now, and you’ll just have to excuse me, as a newcomer, if the obvious has fallen upon my head.  The Hyde Park Theatre is an actor’s theatre, intensely dedicated to the craft and to the challenge of the actor’s art.  How else could one explain the production, back to back, of The Brass Ring and Blackbird? This 75-minute one-act piece by the relatively young British playwright David Harrower brings together in a …

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