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'Pure Morning' Nuvo Review
7/1/09
Nuvo Magazine
by Josefa Beyer
Two Stars
Buoyed by the success of their sold-out comedy "Adventures in Mating" at last
year’s Fringe Festival, Merely Players returned to Indy for one weekend to
premiere a very different show. In Graham Farrow’s "Pure Morning," strangers
in a hotel become vigilantes seeking vengeance for their own tragic lives.
They get an unexpected target when they discover the new U.S. president is
planning a surprise visit to the small Southern town. There are moments in
Act 2, when a maid, a doctor and the town loser rile each other on to do the
deed, that Farrow captures the frightening, runaway heat of shared
desperation. What precedes it, however, is an hour of
never-would-have-happened conversations between mere acquaintances. Their
therapy-like life summaries become podium speeches about what’s wrong with
this country
— low sales, the Iraq War, the
FDA and loved ones who die. Outside of the conspirator’s loop, Farrow
inserts an unrelated duo: the Hollywood starlet who beefs about her
overwhelming celebrity and the agent who is bereft by gay marriage bans.
Farrow, who was present Friday night, claims no allegiance to any political
stance and it doesn’t matter. Partisanship didn’t kill this show. Exposition
did.
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