STAGE REVIEW : Monologues Offer a Mixed Bag of Effects

The three monologuists whose visions make up “Triple Vision,” a brief program at Theatre/Theater in Hollywood, present a mixed bag of effects with some hits and some misses.

Susan Van Allen’s four pieces are linear, almost plotted, but she doesn’t take her material as seriously as she could. From her nasty little girl, who screeches that she wants to go to the zoo, to her elitist novelist working as an office temp, she starts on an intriguing path of satire without ever reaching a conclusion.

Don Victor is more successful, less linear and more startling in his imaginative approach and evocative writing. His surrealistic Commander Ray is a bouquet of verbal Dadaism, and his aging baby-sitter Waldo, improvising a story for his charges through audience suggestion, is clever and oddly touching.

The highlights of the program are Siobhan Fallon’s excerpts from her one-woman show. Her ostentatiously programmed therapist, her chorus girl in a non-Equity stock production of “My Fair Lady” and her pantomimed “Fish” are singular delights and spark this uneven hour.

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