By Ernest Kearney — Director/writer/set designer Donovan Glover won the 1991 UCLA Best-New-Play-of-the-Year Award for this work and at times Just Like Life certainly feels like the work of a neophyte – absurdist themes are the “training wheels” of choice for all greenhorn bards.
In a whitewashed room with a white fridge, white sink, white porcelain toilet center stage and white everything else; Hey-Zeus (Greg Pittenger) frantically scrubs the white tiled floor with his toothbrush as his doting Quote Mamma (Karissa McKinney) watches.
She tells us, “To live in clean is to live in perpetual orgasms.”
Their lives are a cycle of repetitions and restated experience echoing impotent frustration and mindless obliviousness. So far, we have shades of Godot, No Exit and Old Dad, Poor Dad….
But when the red-tie’d Savior (Maria McCann) surges onto the scene like a Tasmanian devil in hyper-drive things begin to get interesting.
