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Clay Hedden does an outstanding job portraying young Bobby Reyburn. Hedden's speech and mannerism make us feel charmed and repulsed at the same time for his character. Although Bobby willingly admits his guilt and comes to terms with his plight, we still find sympathy and pity for the young man. It is hard to listen to his prejudice and bigotry--traits he mouths but doesn't seem to really understand. This play has strong language in it--something I usually frown upon, but with the subject and setting, there's really no way around it without losing some of the impact of the play.
Anthony Balch is perfect for the part of John Brennan, who denies his guilt to the end and writes obituaries for the death row inmates in his newspaper that paints a rosy picture and leaves out the gruesome details of their crimes. We like this guy as he befriends and fathers the fatherless boy in the next cell.
Kim Brown shows us a tough lady with a tough job--guarding the inmates who are condemned to die. She goes about her job of living among the discarded with a hard shell on the outside and denial that it's anything more than a job and, yes, thank you, she sleeps very well at night.
The cast is rounded out with the every lurking New York reporter Samuel Fried played by Jason Lada. Fried is there investigating and asking the questions that we want to know about. His final chilling confrontation with Brennan leaves the audience shaken.
Don't miss this opportunity to see a well-written and well-acted out play. Criss Slaughter, Director, has done an outstanding job bringing this work to the stage. Cynthia Meyer worked on lights and Todd Terry handled sound. The set was designed by Bob Baker.
This show is playing April 12-13 and 18-20 at 8 p.m. and April 14 at 5 p.m. At Renaissance Theatre 1216B Meridian Street, Huntsville. For more information call 536-3434 or 536-3117 or visit http://www.renaissancetheatre.net.
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