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Posted by Dennis Ayers, Managing Editor on February 17, 2009
Jeremy Gabriel and Luke Macfarlane in The Jazz Age
- Today's Variety reviews The Jazz Age, the one act play starring out actor and AfterElton.com fave Luke Maccarlane as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Unfortunately, the entertainment trade mag was not much impressed:
Luke Macfarlane's Fitzgerald is given one note to play, as the character himself confesses: "I'm needy. I'm effeminate." The actor totters and smiles through his tears, but neither the chemistry with his libidinous flapper spouse nor his descent into alcoholism is rendered credible. Nor has [Playwright] Knee provided him with the verbal eloquence to suggest this fellow could produce a Fitzgerald short story, let alone "The Great Gatsby."
Ouch! At least most of the reviewer's ire is directed at the playwright and not at Macfarlane.
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