I Never Sang for My Father by Joel Benjamin

The trouble is Lee's almost catatonic approach to Gene.  He speaks in a toneless monotone and adapts a monolithic physical approach, his hands constantly held stiffly at his sides.  When he does erupt in anger it registers as bizarre overacting rather than the culmination of a life of living under his father's thumb.  This leaves an emotional vacuum in the center of the play.  Even when he delivers the po…

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