Come Back, Little Sheba
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 24, 2007
Closed Jul 22, 2007
Opened Jun 24, 2007
Closed Jul 22, 2007
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S. Epatha Merkerson stars in the classic Come Back, Little Sheba, the final production of the Douglas' 2006-2007 season. This production replaces the previously announced David Mamet's musical A Waitress in Yellowstone, which will now be presented in the Douglas' 2007-2008 season.
Michael Pressman direct this new production of Come Back, Little Sheba, Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright William Inge's tender drama about a fragile marriage steeped in delusion and longing. Merkerson plays Lola, a woman lost in her memories and caught in a stale, hapless 25-year marriage with Doc, a man who has his own struggles with the past. Lola opens their home to Marie, a fresh-faced young boarder, and soon the precarious balance of the couple's relationship is shaken by Marie's youthful sexuality and vivaciousness. Inge gives a compassionate and authentic voice to the complex emotions and longings of Lola and Doc as they are compelled to re-examine their life together.
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There is a deep, aching sense of loneliness and loss that pervades much of the late William Inge's work, and his first major play, Come Back, Little Sheba, which made its Broadway debut in 1950, is rooted in this kind of despair. Sheba is not revived as often as Inge's later, more popular works, Bus Stop and Picnic, so the current production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, starring S. Epatha Merkerson and Alan Rosenberg, had "must see" written all over it.
But anticipation sometimes surpasses actualization, and Michael Pressman's rather dry production is dearly short on emotional involvement. Moreover, it tends to illustrate the rather dated aspects of the script -- particularly the often stil[...]