![]() ![]() Denise makes a play for him with the understanding that he, too, is desperate for a breakout from his own repetitive cycle of existence: “The girl, the car, the bed.” Denise, desperate for some kind of dramatic change-up in her life, suggests they move in together.īut when Tony himself appears in macho tight leather, he explains his “ugly girl” epiphany, which involves a two-hour conversation about the Soviet Union he had with a random pick-up. “He wants to see ugly women,” Linda snuffles. ![]() Tony has broken it off with her and his reasons are mysterious. (“You get knocked up every time you stop walking,” Denise says to Linda.)īut Denise gravitates to Linda’s anguish. When Denise and Linda were in school, they were presumably of different cliques. Gislina Patterson (from left) Frances Koncan and Johanna Burdon in Savage in Limbo.ĭiversion comes in the form of weeping Linda (Johanna Burdon), distraught over the breakup with her longtime Monday-evening assignation Tony (Ady Kay). Like a neurotic thunderbolt comes Denise Savage (Gislina Patterson), manically looking for distraction (“I feel like something is chasing me!”) from a lonely life at home with her shut-in mother. One half-expects Rod Serling to pop up any moment to say: “Submitted for your approval…”Ī bartender named Murk (played by Frances Koncan, who also directed) is keeping dozing customer April (Ntara Curry) topped up with just enough booze to sustain her cognitive haze. Also, they are all trapped in their lives, as per the title. ![]() The play has a light Twilight Zone overlay in that the five characters rambling around the stage share the same age - 32 - and parochial school background. But its setting - a dingy Bronx bar - and its tough, prickly language feel on form for classic Shanley. Savage in Limbo is an early work of John Patrick Shanley’s dating back to 1984. This article was published (2151 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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