The new solo play written by Richard Greenberg ('Take Me Out,' 'Three Days of Rain') and starring David Ivers has insights, but also two big problems.
plays tend to unburden themselves in spoken arias. Long theatrical monologues are their staple, full of verbal curlicues, erudite allusions and pent-up fury.
South Coast Repertory, long an artistic home for Greenberg, commissioned and originally produced “Three Days of Rain.” “A Shot Rang Out: A Play in One Man,” a new solo work that opened over the weekend at the theater’s Segerstrom Stage, marks the 13th of his plays to be produced at SCR, a remarkable 10 of which have been world premieres.This extended monologue, which takes the form of a loose-jointed academic talk, was written expressly for SCR’s artistic director, David Ivers, to perform.
Popular rather than high culture is what’s on John’s mind because it’s how he managed to make it through what he calls his “confinement.” He alludes to a “catastrophe” “of unprecedented scope,” of which no one was “exempt.” But the pandemic isn’t specified or dwelled upon. The message that domesticated passion inevitably grows stale is one of the lessons that John draws from the movie. But the more important one, embodied in the sensual relief Marilyn finds in the cooling subway gust, is that if our pleasures inevitably fade, so too do our sweltering problems.
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