Ames Adamson and Catherine LeFrere
(photo: SuzAnne Barabas)
If I have to admit one thing about Wendy Yondorf's facetious comedy Admit One, it is how much it has been calibrated by its director Karen Carpenter (Love, Loss and What I Wore) to keep audiences at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch laughing at a situation that is, in reality, far from funny. Yes, I know that is what black comedy is all about, but this one isn't black. It is just blah. But that isn't how the opening night well-wishers reacted at the performance that I attended. They responded with gales of laughter to all the lame jokes about New Jersey, even a groaner at the expense of Governor Christie.
What I could see was how deliberately and desperately the play's two fine actors Ames Adamson and Catherine LeFrere were resolved to play off each other like seasoned vaudevillians and stay the course in a distended discourse. Yondorf's glib script focuses primarily on to what extent do stretching ethics and breeching morality take a parent in an attempt to both put the pressure on, as well as pull the wool over the eyes of a presumably intractable admission officer for a prestigious University. For more information and read my complete review please go to CurtainUp.com http://curtainup.com/admit1nj14.html
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