“Tattered Capes” — It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s an Awful Lot of Fun!

By Ernest Kearney — Tattered Capes by Gregory Crafts is like a Graphic Novel for the serious Graphic Novel reader.   It starts at the fifth anniversary dinner of Kevin (Travis Joe Dixon) and Stephanie (Joanna Mercedes).   However, there’s trouble. Kevin, unbeknownst to Stephanie, is M-Pulse, a Metro City superhero who is fretful about sacrificing his patrol of the city for a date-night.

But when the couple is attacked by zombies of the undead, Kevin is treated to the most unexpected of discoveries, that his wife is Star Child, a member of Metro City’s league of premier caped defenders known as The Five: super genius The Owl (Courtney King), the pompous alien Maximus (Tanner Risner), the magical Lady Voodoo (Ann Hurd) and Jonathan (Chris Clabaugh) who’s super human fast like Flash, Zoom and Quicksilver but is having trouble with his name due to copyright issues.

Crafts’ script is full of side winks to the comic book junkies in the audience but winks aside, there is the more serious question of honesty in relationships that is being examined here, and the secret identities we keep from those we love.

The cast is… well super, especially Dixon and Mercedes as the couple who love each other if not their alter-egos.

On the product ion side, Denise Barrett has done an excellent job in costuming the caped defenders.

Also praise to Director Corey Lynn Howe who skillfully provides the pacing and innovation to Crafts’ intelligent and probing script which allows the whole production to leap a tall building in a single bound.

GOLD MEDAL

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Tattered Capes

playing during

Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019

at

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