TWENTIETH CENTURY - Ben Hecht & Charles Macarthur via Kan Ludwig

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JAN 17 thru FEB 8, 2009

COMEDY ON THE DISORIENT EXPRESS
 
By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthurBased on a play by Charles Bruce MilhollandAdapted by Ken Ludwig



.....It's fast. It's funny. It's an Art Deco feast for the eyes. More than a dusted-off classic, it's a prototype of backstage screwball comedies reconfigured for our times.....
Hiatt and Dines deliver beautifully matched oversize personalities....
If he brings down the house with a tour de force account of the Christ story as a vehicle for her Mary Magdalene, it won't be long before she'll match it with one of her own....
San Francisco Chronicle Review.







REBECCA DINES AND DAN HIATT ARE WINNERS
......Director Robert Kelley wisely cast local favorite, the brilliant and attractive Rebecca Dines for the femme-fatale lead and made an astute choice of Dan Hiatt to play opposite her... they chew up the scenery with memorable explosive performances.....
Kedar K. Adour, MD
Courtesy of www.theatreworldinternetmagazine.com



With solid comedic performances from the likes of rubber-faced Dan Hiatt, dazzling, terrifically theatrical Rebecca Dines and pixyish Gerry Hiken, there's much to appreciate in this production....
Dines is remarkable in her ability to cajole, seduce, demand and enthrall in the space of 10 seconds...


PHOTO CREDITS; Mark Kitaoka, Tracy Martin

Director Robert Kelley knows timing - and everything on the "Twentieth Century" depends on precise timing. He leads his pristine, sharp cast through a funhouse ride with a plot that includes a bunch of wild, egotistical, screwball characters....

As Garland, Rebecca Dines is a study in comic genius,
a fireball of physical gags and passive-aggressive outrageousness...
Besides Dines' camp-a-thons, the best scenes
are the quieter moments between her and Jaffe.....
There are lots of choice moments as they fondly
remember their most treacherous exploits.




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