LA WEEKLY Spins yarn about 'Notes'
Here's the LA WEEKLY's half page review of 'Notes'. Again, they missed the beauty of Apollo, the sad bastards. Here's my favorite bit:
While Blomgren’s victim-villain duality clearly emerges through both the dinner fiasco and his heartbreaking treatment of Liza, his grotesquely paranoid view of Apollo is the one relationship Zombie Joe and Ryan cannot adequately explain onstage. There’s certainly a vein of guilt running through Alex’s dealings with his underpaid employee, and a bit of master-slave reversal, but these moments never articulate just what is going on between the two. The porn-reading servant, played to freak-show exaggeration by Benton, flourishes a crippled hand and a flounder-eyed dismay at everything he sees, but we never know, beyond these physical twitches, why Alex is so morally defeated by his mere presence. Perhaps Apollo is just another gargoyle in what Zombie Joe’s Alex calls this “foul suburban night.”
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http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/12/theater-mikulan.php
While Blomgren’s victim-villain duality clearly emerges through both the dinner fiasco and his heartbreaking treatment of Liza, his grotesquely paranoid view of Apollo is the one relationship Zombie Joe and Ryan cannot adequately explain onstage. There’s certainly a vein of guilt running through Alex’s dealings with his underpaid employee, and a bit of master-slave reversal, but these moments never articulate just what is going on between the two. The porn-reading servant, played to freak-show exaggeration by Benton, flourishes a crippled hand and a flounder-eyed dismay at everything he sees, but we never know, beyond these physical twitches, why Alex is so morally defeated by his mere presence. Perhaps Apollo is just another gargoyle in what Zombie Joe’s Alex calls this “foul suburban night.”
Enjoy. COME TO THE SHOW.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/12/theater-mikulan.php