Men of Clay
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Opened Mar 30, 2006
Closed Apr 23, 2006
Opened Mar 30, 2006
Closed Apr 23, 2006
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Men of Clay, a semi-autobiographical comedy by acclaimed playwright/director Jeff Cohen, is a personal story about the playwright's father set in early 1970s Baltimore. Men of Clay captures summers on the red clay tennis courts of Druid Hill Park, and the camaraderie between the "men of clay" - Squeaky Cohn and his buddies Ira Farber, Danny Dickler and Nate Askin - along with the era's Jewish culture and racial tensions and the men's penny-pinching schemes and their stubborn resistance to change.
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If writer/director Jeff Cohen intended Men of Clay as a tribute to his father, he's done a poor job of it. This rather dismal drama is set in Baltimore in the early 1970s and revolves around the author's father, Stan "Squeaky" Cohen (Danton Stone), who's part of a small clique of Jewish men that meets regularly at Druid Hill Park to play on the red clay tennis courts there.
The actual plot of the piece, which involves Stan being caught up in a stolen car ring scam and facing hard time as a result, could make for an intriguing play, but Men of Clay is so disjointed that it's nearly impossible to appreciate anything about it. Cohen's dialogue is often stilted and overly expository. The chara[...]