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[THEATER REVIEW] TRUMBO at Barrington Stage

2.18.08
Barrington Stage Company
TRUMBO
by Christopher Trumbo
based on the letters of Dalton Trumbo
Directed by Julianne Boyd
Starring Thom Christopher and Brian Hutchison

Running through February 24

Review by SETH ROGOVOY, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine

(PITTSFIELD, Mass., February 18, 2008) -- Perhaps best known for his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which has been assigned reading to generations of high school students, Dalton Trumbo's career as a Hollywood screenwriter is equally legendary, both for its high level of achievement (his scripts include Spartacus, Roman Holiday, Exodus, and Papillon).

Nevertheless, Dalton Trumbo will probably be best remembered for his refusal to play ball with the House Un-American Activies Committee's investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in his imprisonment and his blacklisting as one of the "Hollywood Ten."

In spite of being blacklisted, Trumbo continued to write for Hollywood under assumed names. He also wrote dozens or hundreds of letters, and his son, Christopher, has drawn from these letters to create an epistolary two-man play featuring his father and himself.

Barrington Stage Company's minimalist production focuses almost exclusively on Dalton Trumbo, so that the effect is as much a reading as it is a play. As Christopher, Brian Hutchison serves mostly as a foil for Trumbo's stories and rantings about the self-justifications and hypocrisies of the committee and those who cooperated with the McCarthy-ite smear campaign.

Thom Christopher makes a convincing Dalton Trumbo, and the production makes clever use of some video and slide projection. Subsequent productions might want to explore greater use of multimedia in order to bring the drama to even greater heights.

SETH ROGOVOY is editor-in-chief and the award-winning critic-at-large of BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine.






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