By Ernest Kearney — Griffin Kelly’s one-woman show, at HFF 2023, is an odd little hybrid of a Disney animated feature and gritty French film-noir. Think Le Dos Au Muir meets Gay Purr-ee sans the gayness.
Stuffed with mix-media, sexual betrayal, child abuse, murder, and a cast of cats, Kelly’s show is hampered on two levels. One is a script that is almost entirely cat chat. “Meows” that is, and this gag grows old over the stretch of an hour. The other problem deals with all those aspects that could make this effort into something special.
Kelly’s show is full of twists and turns, as the staging wraps in on itself and then falls into the lap of the audience, but this onslaught of ideas tends to stumble and trip over each other. I don’t know if Kelly worked with a director or a producer on this show, but she had better if she plans to take it anyplace else than the litter box
For the Show it could be: A Bronze Medal.
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‘Two Cats on a Date‘ is playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
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Actors Company (Let Live Theatre) in Hollywood.
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