Oliver Parker!
Opening Night: May 17, 2010
Closing: June 6, 2010
Theater: Cherry Lane Theatre
Oliver is 17 and Jasper is 60. They are best friends. Oliver wants to get laid, and Jasper wants to help. Jasper wants to drink himself to death, and Oliver wants to save him. And they share a secret that could ruin them both… if it hasn’t already. A jet black comedy about hurting the ones you love, and loving the ones that hurt.
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May 21, 2010
The new play “Oliver Parker!” at the Cherry Lane Theater might qualify as offensive — certainly it strives mightily for that dubious laurel — if it were not so patently artificial. Set in a noisome New York apartment, where an adolescent boy and his alcoholic older companion enact a sitcomic relationship that gradually reveals darker shadings, Elizabeth Meriwether’s comedy combines the crass vulgarity that passes for wit in teen-aimed Hollywood movies with a well-worn stage cliché, the scabrously dark story of family dysfunction.
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May 21, 2010
Elizabeth Meriwether’s Oliver Parker!, which stageFARM is currently producing at the Cherry Lane Theatre, brings to mind Joe Orton’s plays as it finds comedy in some of the darkest corners of our contemporary world. It’s a bracing, yet only fitfully satisfying, black comedy that’s enhanced immeasurably by four remarkably daring performances.
READ THE REVIEWMay 21, 2010
To label "Oliver Parker!" a black comedy about child molestation (with an atrocious title) would be an unfair assessment, one that wouldn’t be helped much by adding that it’s also a very funny one. Yet playwright Elizabeth Meriwether (best known for her "Heddatron") has crafted a swift, lacerating comedy about grief, coping, and, yes, child molestation.
READ THE REVIEWMay 21, 2010
Jeepers – what a month this has been already for excellent theatre. What did everyone do, wait until the old season was over before they sprung these beauties out of the gate?
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May 21, 2010
First impressions can tell a lot. Even before the play begins, look at the chaotic set and you can’t deny that this is the living room of a very troubled person with its unkempt with food containers, broken glass and shards of pottery. On one side you catch a glimpse of a kitchen that you probably would not want to enter. Slumped in a chair, half-wearing a maroon jacket is Jasper (John Larroquette), staring at a muted television and swigging from a bottle of vodka.
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