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Director Chris Fields has assembled a top-notch cast throughout. Pongetti and Weaver subtly segue from the early comic banter to growing sexual anguish and insecurity, while Martin and Joshua play out the more grinding blue-collar version of dysfunction, and the 10 other women are terrific.

—Neal Weaver (no relation), November 2, 2007
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Playwright Kate Robin rolls up her sleeves and sifts through the garbage that befouls people's relationships. This is visceral theater, complete with simulated sex acts. It's a provocative discourse on the connection between individual behavior and global dysfunction, given its West Coast premiere by Echo Theater Company.

—Daryl H. Miller, Oct. 19, 2007
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Anon is blessed with an abundance of fine performances. The ingratiating Weaver is so much the adorable boy next door that his darker side comes as a shock. Both he and the delectable Pongetti (a fine actress with a comic flair) are TV/film stars in the making and have great chemistry together, whether flirting, fighting, or making love. Martin gives a moving and deeply layered performance of a woman finally tired of years of mistreatment. When she discovers her husband at the kitchen window and cries out “Keep it out of my house!”, the effect is devastating. Joshua is very good indeed as a man still deeply in love with his wife but who cannot control his urges, and deserves a medal of courage for exposing himself so nakedly (both physically and emotionally) and “rising to the occasion” in a way I venture few have ever done before in a legitimate play.

—Steven Stanley
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Anon
by Kate Robin
directed by Chris Fields

with: Nancy Bell - Elizabeth Bennett - Shawna Casey - Emy Coligado
Loreni Delgado - Andrea Grano - Marin Hinkle - Sarah Hudson - Larry Joshua
Tara Karsian - Emily Kosloski - Misi L. Lecube - Alison Martin - Melinda McGraw
Sigute Miller - Sarah Jane Morris - Kit Pongetti - Ginette Rhodes
Anna Simone Scott - Mandy Siegfried - Jeanne Syquia - Blayne Weaver
Aloma Wright - Jacqueline Wright

  Oct 12 - Nov 11,2007
Fri & Sat @ 8p; Sun @ 7p

Stage 52
5299 W. Washington Blvd.
tickets $20 (to purchase, click the link below)
 

 
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