at Two comedies for the price of one! Two of Tony Award nominee Michael Kahn directs two one act plays that both celebrate, and takes aim at, the world of theater, in a wonderfully meta duo. The Real Inspector Hound sees two patrons who find themselves the chief suspects in a whodunnit - that they happen to be watching on stage. The Critic is a whirlwind celebration - or critique of everything that can be wrong with theater; bad playwrights, bad productions playwrights and of course, the critics to whom they offer up their life's work to.
Tom Stoppard's "Inspector Hound" is a play within a play, wherby two critics find that they are in fact caught up in the action of a ludicrous whodunit murder mystery, that eerily parrallels their own lives in more ways than one. Are they imagining things, or is there something more sinister going on in the wings?
First staged in 1797, The Critic is a Georgian satire on the vanity of authors by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and concerns misadventures that arise when an author invites a celebrated stage actor of the time, and two high-brow arts critics to a rehearsal of his play - unfortunately, nothing goes as planned, and he is left at the mercy of those that he invited to watch it.
