At the Beach House
"A POLISHED, STRONG PRODUCTION"
. . . L.A. Weekly
Playwright Aram Saroyan, son of Carol Marcus-who landed William Saroyan (twice) and then Walter Matthau-sets "At the Beach House" on a Malibu patio close to Saroyan's own bones. He takes what he knows and turns it into an Oedipus at Trancas, a place where protagonists and antagonists tote cells and the resident household gods work studios for ungodly amounts of cash.* Marcia Rodd's staging puts the focus where it should be.
. . . BackStage West
Orson Bean is engagingly cranky as the movie-star titan. The cracklingly charismatic Bean plays Clyde Harrow as a coolly ironic, larger-than-life lion at sunset. Lisa Glass's wonderfully nuanced and brittle turn as Angela...Nancy Jeris's mommy's gestures are theatric, in perfect grand symmetry... "The thing is, nobody really pays attention to her; she yearns for yearning sake, for anything at all, and nobody cares. Gander at the wonderful Dena Dietrich, who grounds everything as the sassy grandmother who is too venerated to blame for anything. Jake Eberle as Angela's brother Nick starts to sound sagacious, sensical...Saroyan.
. . . The Overnighter
Ultimately it's the promise of Saroyan as playwright. This play one feels is a must-write, a personal catharsis.
. . . Showmag.com
