The Torch-Bearers
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 29, 2009
Closed Aug 9, 2009
Opened Jul 29, 2009
Closed Aug 9, 2009
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The play is a side-splitting 1920s farce in which a troupe of amateur actors rehearse and perform a show-stopping new play--or try to with all their might. Their stage is riddled with comedic drama, suspense, and good old-fashioned witty mayhem, similar to both Noises Off and Boeing Boeing.
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In his 1927 play
The Torch-Bearers, now enjoying a game if inconsequential revival at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the late George Kelly gave a skit-worthy notion -- the potential dreadfulness of amateur theatrics -- the full two-hour treatment. Even as intelligently tweaked by adapter/director Dylan Baker and enacted by a dream cast, there's just not enough humor or insight here to go the distance. Moreover, Kelly tended to pad the proceedings with the kind of slapstick that may have gone over big back in the day, but they mostly fizzle here and have outlived their power to charm.
Mr. Ritter (John Rubenstein) returns home from a business trip to find his doting wife (Becky Ann Baker[...]