THE PARTICULARS AND IN GENERAL by Matthew MacKenzie. Factory Studio. August 11 at 10:30 pm, August 12 at 3 pm, August 13 at 8 pm. See listing Rating: NNNN
Matthew MacKenzie‘s thoughtful play looks at two troubled but very human characters: a cheerful but overworked youth minister in Africa named Lily (Elizabeth Saunders), whose sermon recounting the horrific tale of a colleague’s loss of faith is peppered with unintentionally funny asides, and Gordon (Simon Bracken), a robotic young man who has experienced his own loss but is obsessed with catching an animal whose scratching keeps him up at night.
MacKenzie’s sharp and richly detailed social satire gets a fine staging by director Alex McCooeye, and both actors bring out layers of subtext in their bravura monologues.
