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Audience Reviews - Fair Use (Submit your own review)
Must see!
11/29/2009
Great characters and writing brought to life by great actors! My first visit to Actor's Express, but it won't be my last. Really loved the staging as well.
Wonderful Show
11/27/2009
What a beautifully written and cast show - thanks for a smart, enjoyable, entertaining, and clever show!
Snap, Crackle and Pop!
11/26/2009
Exquisitely written, designed, acted and directed! The dialogue is engaging, sharp and literate. The characters are wonderfully complete, the actors are perfectly cast, the visual and sound designs are superb, the pace is brisk, the direction is transparent and spot on, and the overall experience is joyful and exhilarating! A wonderfully satisfying night at the theatre!
Perfect Casting
11/22/2009
Fair Use is one of the most perfectly cast plays I have seen in a long time. Laura and Tony really filled out the play with their quircky characters. Rachel and John provided a strong foundation for the entire cast. Keep up the good work!
Fair Use - Contains Spoilers - see the play first
11/21/2009
Great acting, technically good, excellent well written dialog. Good chemistry once the play got well underway. It was just so clever and so good and then in 3 minutes we get this very disappointing ending. Its not an impossible ending but there was absolutely no development to support it. Why couldn't we have had a truly interesting ending instead of the sellout. From a literary perspective truly the ending did not fit what we know about Madi. Totally apart from that, I am forever curious about gay people writing plays which seem to imply that with the right amount of coercing, YOU can have that heterosexual you have a crush on. Not interesting, not real, not mature. Let's put it this way, what kind of a play would this have been if Madi had been gay (umm, really gay like from the start gay), but just not interested in Sy. Sy is so "its all about me" it would take a special person indeed to love Sy. Well that might have been an interesting play. The story of being gay for me, initially was all about the tragedy of unrequited love from the standpoint that there are so many men and only one in ten was a possibility. But you know what? One in ten is enough. I know plenty of gay men for whom the idea of seducing a straight man is an exciting possibility. BECAUSE HE'S STRAIGHT. There is more than a little bit of neurosis in this theme and I will be glad when we all - men and women - can evolve beyond it.
2 Plagarisms
11/17/2009
The show was great! The way the firm takes on a plagarism case at work, while dealing with a plagarism letter of love is awesome!!
Laws of Attraction
11/16/2009
Ms. Gubbins play is a self-contained, perfectly-packaged piece of modern theatre. She writes dialogue that is fresh without being quippy and plot twists that could be true turns of reality, an antithesis to the commercial likes of Diablo Cody, who believes her fictional teen-speak to be colloquial. In this staging at the Express, the play's first full production, Freddie Ashley directs with full confidence a perfectly cast set of actors who, with the exception of two scenes of slagging pace, command the stage without bullying each other off of it. Mr. Benzenger is particularly good at playing a character whose only fault is caring too much for a lost cause, a role that could have been overplayed for laughs. The use of Alice Russell's pop covers suited the play well, buoying it along, keeping the play light as air, as well it should be. The set design, a single office space, served its purpose, the best compliment such design can receive. Congratulations to the cast and crew for creating a show that is what it is. And what it is is good.
Enjoyable
11/16/2009
The playwriting teacher in me winced at a number of logistical inconsistencies that should have been ironed out in revision (why a typewriter which should have made the sender of the letters obvious, why Sy never really reacted to learning that her letter was stolen) and an overlong scene between Sy and Madi that kept spinning its wheels, but all in all, a highly enjoyable romantic comedy well acted, particularly by Rachel Garner and John Benzinger.
Fair Use
11/16/2009
We enjoyed this play. As always Actor Express blows it out of the park. Highly recommend.
Spit and polish
11/16/2009
Actor's Express presents another well crafted theater experience. AE has given up relying on the willing suspension of theatrical expectations (or "gee, we're just a bunch of artist types performing in an old farm factory space.")
The set,costumes, directions (and the execution of the set), lighting and sound are all first rate - for any theater space.
Special mention to John Benzinger - plays a pretty white boy role so well you don't even realize at first what a good actor he is. But he delivers volumes with a facial expression, magically avoiding farce or camp in situations where parody would be too easy.
Not to say all is perfect. The beginning dialog is strained and preachy - as the legal lessons Sarah Gubbins set about delivering come close to destroying the reality of the characters. But all is forgiven with the first real scene between Sy and Madi which absolutely sparkles.
Good job AE
Fair Use
11/11/2009
Thanks to the Express for bringing back Sarah Gubbins to Atlanta and featuring a Kendeda Graduate Playwright Competition finalist in your season. The show is a treat! So warm and well acted. Congratulations.
Celise Kalke
Alliance Theatre Director of New Projects
Fair discussion
11/11/2009
My friends and I enjoyed Saturday's preview performance. The subject matter of the play generated a lively discussion on the way home. Funny, smart and thought provoking. Hope to see more of Sarah Gubbins' work in the future.
Smart and funny
11/09/2009
Actors Express has done it again. “Fair Use” is funny, smart, and romantic. The show is perfectly cast, well directed and the set is beautiful. Actors Express should be extremely proud of this world premiere production. First rate all around. I can’t wait to see what AE has in store the rest of the season.
lovely fun
11/08/2009
Fair Use is a hit! Wit, romance, intelligence, great acting, directing and sound and set design. A really classy production of a world premier and fun play.
Fun AND Useful Comedy
11/07/2009
There's a great deal to relish in this world premier that both points up and celebrates the ways we work to get love and love around our work. Strong cast is having a blast and is made even more fun to look at against the spot on, very pretty set. Though there's lots to think about here, the fun conquers all.
Fair Use
11/07/2009
We all loved the show ... and what FUN getting to see it with the playwright in attendance! Actor's Express always delivers ... thanks, and keep up the good work.
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