In return, Bruce requests that Talker cast aesthetic judgment on the upcoming performance of Hard Cell:
A madcap new comedy of errors and mistaken identity. When college professor Nick Abtahi finds himself lost in a small Midwestern town, the welcome mat doesn’t exactly get rolled out by its crazy collection of locals. This laugh out loud comedy makes its world premiere at Geva.
So says Gevatheatre.org, but Talker will render the verdict.
Bruce sent two tickets, leaving one seat unfilled. Recently, Talker has been all work — editors, creditors, fickle readers and prima donna writers — and no play. So, in what ought not be a hard sell, Talker offers a ticket to Hard Cell.

Afterwards, Talker will get us a table at Nox where we can hobnob with the cast. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sunday, 1/6/19
We seek a connoisseur of the arts, one with a dramatic eye and a clever pen. Ideally, our evening escort might be comely, vivacious, and sweetly articulate. While Talker is open minded, we do prefer a companion of the feminine persuasion. Any interested parties can respond to David Kramer, [email protected]
If all goes as hoped, this will be our seventh Geva review. As seen in Revisiting Rochester theater the Geva series began with Seeing Red. Did we violate “sacred space” backstage at Geva? After the performance, the audience was invited backstage and on the set, sparking a lively discussion about theatrical boundaries.
In Deconstructing (and admiring) Geva’s “Miracle on South Division Street”through the looking glass. we looked at how playwright Tom Dudzick set his play in an almost entirely all black neighborhood but one in which all the characters are white and race is never mentioned.

From Deconstructing (and admiring) GEVA’s “Miracle on South Division Street”through the looking glass.
A finely executed performance of Mockingbird at Geva. And on the “white trash” Ewells focuses on representations of the “white trash” Ewells and how they become scapegoats obscuring middle class white racism.
What critics said about Moon for the Misbegotten from 1947 onward contributes at least something to Eugene O’Neill studies. The essay charts critical response to the Moon for the Misbegotten over several decades.
The office as therapy in Geva’s The May Queen looks at how playwright Molly Smith Metzler problematizes the concept of narcissist personality disorder by creating a sympathetic character who could easily be clinically diagnosed as narcissistic.
In Thumbs up for Geva’s “Thurgood”, we dicussed three Geva plays been based on the lives of historically prominent African-Americans: Mountaintop (2015), Martin Luther King Jr., The Agitators (2017), Frederick Douglass, and Thurgood (2018), Thurgood Marshall.
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