Kernel of Sanity
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 16, 2009
Closed May 3, 2009
Opened Apr 16, 2009
Closed May 3, 2009
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In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a crucial confrontation with a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play, but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and betrayal and their contrasting perceptions of illusion and reality.
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References to works like Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, and Richard Wright's Native Son foreshadow bloody violence that never arrives in Kermit Frazier's strained one-act drama
Kernel of Sanity now playing at the Abrons Arts Center in a New Federal Theatre production.
The ingredients for fatal violence certainly seem to be in place. It's the late 1970s in a small, unnamed Midwestern town, where Frank (Joel Nagle), a semi-successful actor has retreated after burning out on the falsehoods of life -- and drugs -- in Los Angeles. While Frank -- who has received an "official" diagnosis of mental disability from the Social Security Administration -- still self-medicate[...]