Poor Kyle
Rating: 2
Broke-ology
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
For the second year in a row, Kyle Hatley has been saddled with an ungodly bad script to direct at the Copaken. He somewhat survived last season's Borderland, buoyed by a great scary performance from the villain, but he gets no such luck this time around. Broke-ology is an amateurish mess. The script is filled with blatant exposition and easily marked as a freshman effort from the playwright. A few moments of pathos along the way do not keep one sufficiently awake to really watch this thing. And Mr. Hatley's staging is crude, at best. Bad blocking on a cumbersome set. I don't usually notice such things, but here it was unavoidable.
The two sons are fairly competent in their roles but the father and the mother are just bad bad bad. Oh lordy, girl, yes we get that you are pregnant! She ate up at least half a minute every time she had to sit down or get up trying to make sure we got that she was preggers. Less indicating from all concerned would have been welcome, but with such a thin script maybe they felt they had to pump up the volume. Avoid at all costs!!! But because it is about neglected black people in KCK, the fool audience leaped to their feet at the end of the performance. I was astounded and ashamed.
read the review at kcstage.com
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