My overall impression
Review by Pauline Adamek.
- This review first appeared on www.StageRaw.com *
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In Adam Hahn’s new play “The Mermaid Wars,” making its world premier at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, the world is in crisis. Mermaids have risen from the sea and plunged humankind into a seemingly interminable war. As the scientists and military spend decades searching for an effective defense to their mysterious powers, each U.S. President slowly goes insane.
Regrettably, SkyPilot’s production squanders a decent premise and the commitment of a large cast with a muddled storyline, weak and unfunny dialogue and poor direction. Nicholas Leland has evidently instructed his cast to play their roles ‘big’ aiming for broad humor, but what we get is a spectrum of hammy overacting. Nevertheless, Anthony Backman is good as the increasingly unhinged Vice President and Kerr Lordygan is amusing as an ornately gesticulating and poetic scientist.
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Review continues here – http://stageraw.com/2015/06/11/fringe-2015-mermaid-wars/
