C6 - Friday, April 27, 1984 - North Shore News

GE entertainment

Problems beset Hot L Baltimore

But it’s still a good show

THE HOT L Baltimore, written by Lanford
Wilson, is a play about people. The entire show
takes place ‘‘.... in the lobby of a once elegant, but
soon to be demohished hotel, where a varied cast of
characters reveals the essence of their lives in a
twenty-four hour penod that incorporates love,

lust, hysteria, hope,

vy

resignation.

The preceding sentence 1s
taken directly from the press

disappointment and

Lambert, who was pertect in
the role of April Green, an

By DECLAN McMANLUS

beaten younger brother ot
Jackie (Maureen Robinson),
and Merran Fahtman as the
girl, who was onstage for
almost the entire” perfor-
mance. Other standouts were
Bernard Blumer and
Maureen Robinson.

This production was also
graced by a particularly good

set award at the North Shore
Drama Festival for his work
on Ring Around the Moon,
the set was perfect for giving
the impression of an old, run-
down hotel. The = surroun-
dings certainly give the actors
something to work with.

~

First impression’s
production of The Hor L
Balumore will be running at

release of the First Impres- aging, cynical prostitute,
sions production of The Hot Shaun Garvey, the brow-
| Baltunore, which opened
up at Presentation House on
Thursday, April 19) The ac-
tual production, on the other
hand, does not quite live up
to this deseription. This does
not, however, mean that the
show was poor, as il was very
enjoyable, but there were
some problems

The main flaw with this
production seemed to be a
general lack of movement
within each act, the world
movement tn this case mean-
ing a sense of direction. The
play lacked a sense of starting
at a certain Jevel, and
building to a new point. As a
result of this, the show hada -
very static feel, remaining at
the same level for long
penods of tume. This was
particularly noticeable at the
end of each act, when the
lights would come down at a
point where nothing impor-
tant seemed to have occur-
red. Often, the audience was
in a certain amount of confu-
sion as to whether or not the
act had actually ended or not
The worse case of this was al
the ending, where the play
appeared to stop in the mid
die of nowhere

Another problem with the
production was in the way
the characters related to one
another While each of the
characters were well defined
within themselves, there was
often some contusion as to
how they were involved with
cach other An example of
this is in the relabonship bet
ween Bill Lewis, the clerk oft
the hotel, amd the girl, oa
young call girl Towards the
end of the show) it seems Bill
INS supposed to feel some at
traction for her but othis

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