My overall impression
As a veteran of 4 one woman shows and a director of countless of ’em, I figure I know what separates the women and men from the boys and girls. One person shows are not for sissies. They lay it all bare: your promise and your past, your persona and your soul.
It is immediately evident that Bill Ratner is not interested in hiding anything. He’s baring it all, good and bad, sad and sweet and funny.
That milky and buoyant voice has you floating on a Ray Bradburian cloud of nostalgia, then plummets you to the depths of sorrow as a series of devastating losses is chronicled ever so gently and casually in Ratner’s autobiographical tale. You can see the guy’s humility and humor, his benevolent disposition and his tremendous skill at something no one would have expected him to succeed in- Life. Considering what his young self went through to arrive at an unconscionable level of success, despite surviving as much loss as anyone could possibly survive- he is good at life, he’s good at people, he’s just- good.
It may be a little on the short side- I’d like to hear more, but the good news is that there are a lot more stories in that head. I am looking forward to hearing them.
Check it out- at $10 a ticket, you get a taste of what the Big Boys and Girls are doing in their spare time.
