Review by anonymous
June 16, 2012 certified reviewerMy overall impression
“Gentle Passage” is strong stuff. Read about the plot elsewhere but what you most take away from it is power of two highly skilled, tightrope-walking performances. Rachel Boller makes poignant and believable her angry bureaucratic character’s journey from detached, cold and impersonal to empathic and less guarded. She is powerful and deeply moving. Her foil is the character played by Gary Rubenstein, who portrays with disarming humor, charm, candor and, finally, heartbreaking anguish portrays just how indomitable the human spirit can be, even in the face of almost inconceivable childhood neglect and abuse. Rubenstein resists playing for pathos and instead gives a piercing performance that packs a wallop. The chemistry between the actors is very strong. Told in a series of blackouts and spare, simple and effectively written and directed, the show cries out for a longer life. It’s that good.
