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The Green Room
Our Rating: 
This locally produced satire about a Hollywood career resurrection starts auspiciously with an episode of In the Actor’s Face, an interview show wherein the newly revived actor Jonathan Harvey (Scott Cranwill, who co-wrote The Green Room with Kevin Doherty) shares his genius with the show’s unctuous, celeb-worshipping host (a very funny bit by Peter Nadolny).
What Harvey doesn’t share is the truth behind his resuscitated career — the secret program known as the “Green Room,” which involves assuming the identity of a capitalist preacher attempting to insert a Walmart-like retail outlet into the little burg of Hiatus, Wis.
The comedy has its share of interesting ideas and performances (Chantel Marostica melds an animal-shelter volunteer with a Bond villain). But the tone and the writing are often uneven (i.e. not funny) and in need of judicious trimming. The Green Room illustrates a fringe maxim: Inside every bloated 80-minute play, there’s a better, leaner 60-minute play dying to get out.
— Randall King
From the official Fringe Festival guide:
When a scandal derails movie star Johnathan Harvey's career, a bizarre performance rehabilitation program known as The Green Room is the only way back to the top. Taking on a new identity, his every move watched, he fakes his way into the hearts of a small town community.
A tale of love, lies and redemption… not necessarily in that order.
In 3-D.
Warnings: Subject Matter, Language, Gunshots, Strobe Lights, Herbal Cigarettes,
RECOMMENDED: Mature Audience
75 min
Tickets: $10
Discount Tickets: $8 for Matinees
Babes in arms permitted.
MTC Warehouse (Venue 6), to July 24
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