By Ernest Kearney — Writer/Performer Drew Petriello has given his audience a war drama, a swashbuckling derring-do, a medical tearjerker, a tragic romance, a psychological mystery, a sexual psychodrama, poetic musings and philosophical speculations all wadded up in an allegorical fantasy played out within a human heart.
Such ambition is doomed to flounder in incoherence and flounder it does.
Directed by Miles Berman, Petriello burst forth at full speed, In Heart of Golden Tar (HFF23), guns blazing…and stays there, losing any delineation beneath the unaccommodating dynamics of his delivery.
While sporadically some strong writing and solid acting manage to rise above the befuddlement, Petriello’s transitions from concept to mode with a rapidity that leaves his audience blinded and baffled in his dramatic dust.
Too many ideas are always a bad idea.
For what does show through a Bronze Medal.
****
Heart of Golden Tar
playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
at
The Broadwater (Studio) in Hollywood.
For Hollywood Fringe Festival Details, Heart of Golden Tar Show Information, and Tickets Click HERE.
