Review: Still Fountains by Michael Mitchell

by Michael Meigs
Published on December 08, 2008

Michael Mitchell successfully creates movement, rhythm, and conflict for this odd bunch. Dialogue is spotty but at times very punchy. Far too often, the writing and plot devices are far too precious.

Glum and dreary exercises in male homosexual misery, these two plays by Michael Mitchell now playing at the Salvage Vanguard seem curiously dated. Maybe early Tennessee Williams?  The first play, Highway Home, brings together two brothers, each probably a homosexual frustrated in his own way, with their nephew Blake (Jude Hickey) and his new wife Alison, an African-American attorney (Gina Houston). The occasion is the long-delayed death of their mother.Sourly garrulous Shannon stayed and wiped Mom’s butt, after …

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