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Reader Reviews – May 25, 2001
BRICK – Right before taking my seat at Brick’s show I realized I’d lost my wallet. Yet the five-person ensemble was so funny I happily forgot this minor crisis for an hour. Directed by Kevin Rich, BRICK revisits familiar comic territory but does so dynamically. Two women in a powder room discuss astrophysics with adolescent giddiness, and office workers talk blandly about Chicago’s two seasons (winter and construction, of course) with the peppy Stan (Tim Mason) – who is in fact Satan.
The ensemble also wittily takes on politics in a scene depicting a contemporary native land-rights contest and in a musical number applauding the diversity of shades of white. A highlight is Louis Farrakhan (Cayne Collier) pointing out the racist subtext of a naïve suburbanite (Marion Austin Oberle) explaining her prizewinning recipes on “Farrakhan Can Cook.” These performers are entertaining even when silent, splitting the stage for tableaux depicting a happy family around the hearth (Megan Kellie and Susan Salvi) while dad survives a plane crash and fights to get back home. Fast paced and funny, BRICK relies on intelligent humor, too often absent from late-night fare.
Reader Reviews – May 25, 2001
BRICK – Right before taking my seat at Brick’s show I realized I’d lost my wallet. Yet the five-person ensemble was so funny I happily forgot this minor crisis for an hour. Directed by Kevin Rich, BRICK revisits familiar comic territory but does so dynamically. Two women in a powder room discuss astrophysics with adolescent giddiness, and office workers talk blandly about Chicago’s two seasons (winter and construction, of course) with the peppy Stan (Tim Mason) – who is in fact Satan.
The ensemble also wittily takes on politics in a scene depicting a contemporary native land-rights contest and in a musical number applauding the diversity of shades of white. A highlight is Louis Farrakhan (Cayne Collier) pointing out the racist subtext of a naïve suburbanite (Marion Austin Oberle) explaining her prizewinning recipes on “Farrakhan Can Cook.” These performers are entertaining even when silent, splitting the stage for tableaux depicting a happy family around the hearth (Megan Kellie and Susan Salvi) while dad survives a plane crash and fights to get back home. Fast paced and funny, BRICK relies on intelligent humor, too often absent from late-night fare.