MOJO MICKYBO (2019 remount)
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Feb 15 & 16, 2019 - Indiana
Feb 27 & 28, 2019 - Chicago written by Owen McCafferty directed by Jeff Christian Presented in partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Davis Theater Summer. Belfast, Ireland, 1970. 9 year-old best friends Mojo and Mickybo don't care if they're from opposite sides of the rising Catholic/Protestant divide. "Thick as two small thieves," they spend their days in adventures of the imagination, building huts, rolling down hills, teasing the adults, and re-enacting scenes from their favorite movie - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. But as 'The Troubles' increase, the boys' idyllic world is threatened, forcing them to take sides in a conflict they can't understand. This remount of ITC's 2009 production reunites the original team of actors Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller, and director Jeff Christian.
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Exuberant performances ...Kauzlaric and Waller fill the tiny bare stage with believable pre-teen energy and quicksilver emotions...The scenes where the two mimic their heroes are comic treasures. " “Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller turn in an amazing tour de force, slipping effortlessly from 17 different characters including the two young Belfast lads of the title with little more than the inflection of their voices, gesture or postures. As a showcase for acting ingenuity, ‘Mojo’ is a marvel of a thrill ride.” |
In Jeff Christian’s brisk, athletic staging for Seanachai Theatre Company, Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller play not only the boys but everyone else in their world... Jeff Christian and his two highly engaging and charismatic stars prove |
Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller play the “best of lads”... and Jeff Christian’s production is well served by its two actors, who transform on a dime without ever turning their numerous characters into stereotypes and - most importantly - without in any way condescending to their young main characters. Mojo Mickybo is a tour de force for actors Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller" |
