ACTS OF LOVE
By KATHRYN CHETKOVICH
With
ANDREW DAWSON, ANDREW REIN, ABBY ROYLE, DIANE TYLER
Directed by MARC GELLER
Producer: STEPHEN MORFESIS
Stage Manager: BERNITA ROBINSON
Scenic Design: AARON MASTIN
Lighting Design: FRANK DenDANTO III
Costume Design: DENNIS BALLARD
Original Music: DANIEL T. DENVER
Press Representative: KPM ASSOCIATES
Kirk Theatre
410 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues)
Opening Night: November 6, 2007
Kathryn Chetkovich’s ACTS OF LOVE is about a family that on the
supposedly joyful 20th wedding anniversary of Ed (Andrew Dawson) and
Sheila (Diane Tyler) is finally forced to reveal secrets and face
unpleasant truths. Surviving son Tom (Andrew Rein) brings his new
girlfriend Annie (Abby Royle) to the summer home for what he terms as a
“five-meal visit,” and suddenly nothing is quite as simple as it originally
seemed.
While the circumstances under which these individuals meet and re-meet are
border-line bizarre, it is to Chetkovich’s credit that she keeps it all
credible. There’s both pathos and humor, and she tempers one with the other in a
mesmerizing fashion. The cast does a magnificent job of presenting characters
both eccentric and endearing, and you end up rooting for each one although a win
for one may necessitate a loss for another. In the end ACTS OF LOVE is a
tribute to the diversity and purpose of families. It beautifully illustrates the
needs that bring individuals together and the love that keeps them together
under the most desperate of times.
- Laurie Lawson -