By Ernest Kearney — The frustration with this one-man show is that Writer/Performer Murray Meyer has been a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles for a good number of years, and during that period has pick up his share of stories worth telling.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t tell them, he hints at them while continually inflicting the audience with short clips from The Verdict, Young Mr. Lincoln and M. He also shows clips of himself speaking, which is an odd thing to do since he’s there on stage. Far from serving his performance, these interruptions merely manage to break the flow of his narrative.
He offers various anecdotes of life in the legal trenches but keeps these pithy to the point of nonoccurrence. Recounting a single case revealing jurisprudence’s foibles and failings would have probably been the course to take. When he’s simply being himself on stage Meyer is engaging and very amusing, but as it stands even Perry Mason couldn’t win this case.
For those moments when he’s “Murray Meyer” – A Bronze Medal.
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Criminal Defence playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
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