![]() ![]() The specifics of a historical period-but in fact the skillful evocation Red Herring marks the writer's first full-scale immersion in Opened at Primary Stages in New York in March, featuring George Wendr of Himself to death in his own restaurant, has been widely produced, and Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf, about a wealthy man trying to starve Incorruptible (1996), a lightning-fast farce set in a monastery and rich ![]() Hollinger's most successful show before Herring was Philadelphia actress Megan Bellwoar, with whom he has a son.) "Both marriages crashed and burnedīecause of major betrayals." (Hollinger himself is married to "Both of my parents were married before they marriedĮach other," he said. Was deeply concerned with the issue of betrayal-a quite personal oneįor Hollinger. Projection room and utilizing movie dialogue and flashbacks. Hollinger's Tiny Island (1997) wasĪ metaphorically dense study of two estranged sisters, set in a movie Red Herring is Hollinger's fourth collaboration with theĪrden, and with director Nolen. The play's closing sequence gives us two of theĬouples in handcuffs: an apt prefiguration of not-so-certain marital Speeded along by Hollinger's quick wit, inexhaustible punning andĪllusive layering. This veritable spider web of murder and spy subplots, relyingĪt once on Dickensian coincidence and surrealistic improbability, is Murder, mistaken identities, missed connections, fumbled code, botchedįorensics. Herring revolves around three couples, all on the threshold of marriage.īefore they reach the altar, there are, as there must be, complications: SKILLFULLY ACTED BY A SIX-PERSON ensemble performing 18 parts, Red ![]() Hollinger's take on the politics of marriage, a distinctlyĬontemporary view of how forgiveness can mitigate betrayal. But the larger themes of the era are mostly fodder for Researched it, relying on such books as David Halberstam's Theįifties and Bombshell by Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, about a spyĪt Los Alamos. Hollinger, 38, never experienced the 1950s. Rosenbergs, the fusion bomb, Burns and Allen, and the McCarthy hearings In a series of short scenes separated by blackoutsĪnd punctuated by songs (mostly) from South Pacific, Hollinger'sĬharacters traverse a historical landscape in which I Love Lucy, the Order to create a new life out of will and love."īut this intricate, satirical and vaguely noir murder mystery isĪlso a meditation on a decade whose darkest moments have mutated into a Interview, are "people who are broken and come together in Marriage." At the heart of the play, Hollinger said in an ![]() Nolen describes the play, set in 1952 inīoston, Wisconsin and the South Pacific, as a "comic fable about Says one character, that requires constant bailing.ĭirector Terrence J. Resonance, first serving as a backdrop for the play's action, thenĪs a metaphor for its main subject, marriage-"a little dory," Transformed into a billboard for Ogilby Kippers, adds to the titular Winslow Homer's famous painting The Herring Net, Herring, which debuted this winter at Philadelphia's Arden TheatreĬompany, the term also evokes a 1950s world of red-baiting, H-bomb testsĪnd Soviet spies. A red herring is, of course, both aįish and a deliberately distracting clue in a detective story. Retrieved from Ī Philadelphia playwright views marriage through a '50s hazeĬonsider the clever layers of meaning embedded in the title of 2000 Theatre Communications Group 26 Jun. MLA style: "Landscape with Herring." The Free Library. ![]()
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