Stephen Adly Guirgis's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Between Riverside and Crazy' has its L.A. premiere at the Fountain Theatre in a production directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos.
Michael Ritchie, the artistic director of Center Theatre Group, has brought exciting theater programming, but why hasn’t he made Los Angeles a greater player in the national conversation?
Walter tolerates their company the way Redd Foxx on the old sitcom “Sanford and Son” used to put up with visitors to his salvage shop. He’s harsh, but you sense he’d be heartbroken if his ire drove them away.Guirgis’ slangy slingshot dialogue doesn’t flow naturally from the performers in the early going. There’s too much of it, and Anthony and Miranda seem to be impersonating rather than inhabiting their characters. But the production kicks into gear with the plot.
During a visit from Det. Audrey O’Connor , his former partner on the beat, and her ambitious fiancé, Lt. Dave Caro , Walter blows up when they urge him to settle his lawsuit with the city. Having lost his sexual functioning after the shooting, he’s still too bitter to strike a compromise even though it’s getting more unlikely with each passing year that he will prevail.
As this conflict ratchets up, another more subterranean struggle is taking place inside Walter. He’s holding a bad hand of cards in life, but can something positive come out of something negative? “Doing the wrong thing to do the right thing” is something Walter has had plenty of experience of as a police officer. When a Brazilian church lady with erotic cunning pays a visit in the second act, she shows him that grace — God’s unearned favor — can emerge from the most unlikely of sources.
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