By Chuck Graham
TucsonStage.com
The power of theater is pressure-packed into Beowulf Alley’s production of “Last of the Boys” by Steven Dietz. A quintet of actors directed by Susan Arnold keeps up the intensity from start to finish, pushing us through angry confrontations and twisted nightmare memories to tell a ghost story that began with Vietnam.
Seldom this season has any local company presented such a solid effort to reach such a compelling conclusion. The finale comes screaming out of the darkness, full of battle noise and desperate sobbing, a truly poetic conclusion packing many kinds of impact.
The power of theater is pressure-packed into Beowulf Alley’s production of “Last of the Boys” by Steven Dietz. A quintet of actors directed by Susan Arnold keeps up the intensity from start to finish, pushing us through angry confrontations and twisted nightmare memories to tell a ghost story that began with Vietnam.
Seldom this season has any local company presented such a solid effort to reach such a compelling conclusion. The finale comes screaming out of the darkness, full of battle noise and desperate sobbing, a truly poetic conclusion packing many kinds of impact.
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