Peter and Jerry
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 28, 2004
Closed Jun 20, 2004
Opened May 28, 2004
Closed Jun 20, 2004
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Hartford Stage concludes its 40th Anniversary celebration with Peter and Jerry, a world premiere by the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Edward Albee. The legendary playwright expands his groundbreaking first play The Zoo Story into a full evening of theatre with a new first act, entitled Homelife. A quiet and unassuming man, Peter is simply looking for a quiet place to read his book. In Homelife, he is interrupted by his wife, Ann, who wants to talk about the stuff of life--spinach, cats, kids, marriage, sex and mortality. In The Zoo Story, we find Peter on his favorite bench in Central Park. His attempt to read his book is thwarted by Jerry, a stranger intent on taking over the bench.
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We're all entitled to an occasional lapse in judgment. Edward Albee's decision to add an opening act -- a foreplay, if you will -- to his 1958 classic The Zoo Story, to move the action of the play to the present day, and to envision the amalgam as a full-length work titled Peter and Jerry is a misstep. Appending a prefatory glimpse of the mild-mannered Peter conversing with his wife before he sets out for that fateful afternoon in the park, doesn't "open up" the original play; rather, it shuts it down.
Peter, played in this Hartford Stage production with more than customary namby-pambyness by Frank Wood (a Tony Award winner for Side Man), is presented in the original version of The Zoo Sto[...]