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'Exorcism' offers brief, frank insight into Eugene O’Neill | Beowulf Alley Theatre Company

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'Exorcism' offers brief, frank insight into Eugene O’Neill
O’Neill fragment is with seeing—especially with student discounts

Jul 11, 2012, 5:51 pm
Dave Irwin
TucsonSentinel.com

Evan Engle as Ned, gives an idealized performance as O’Neill would probably like to have seen himself: square jawed, ruggedly handsome, too tough to die and too strong to be denied.

Ken Beider gives a heart wrenching performance as down-and-out Jimmy. Having recently returned to the stage after an eight-year absence (in Beowulf’s “Sins of the Mother”), Beider’s physicality embodies a man who is slowly collapsing in on himself, day by day, drink by drink.
 Ken Beider and Evan Engle as pals in Exorcism
Ken Beider and Evan Engle as pals in Exorcism
Grace Fenlason/Beowulf Alley Theatre