They’re Carrying On as if It’s in the Script. ‘Stage Kiss,’ a Sarah Ruhl Comedy, at Playwrights Horizons
Charles IsherwoodMarch 2, 2014: “When I kissed you just now, did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person?” asks the heroine of Stage Kiss, Sarah Ruhl’s daffy comedy about the emotional pitfalls of the acting life. “Because I’ve kissed you so many times over the last few weeks, I’m starting to not know the difference.” A definitive answer to her question remains troublingly elusive for the befuddled actress at the center of Ms. Ruhl’s scattered but lively blend of romantic comedy and backstage farce, which opened on Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons in a production directed by Rebecca Taichman. Jessica Hecht and Dominic Fumusa play two actors with a heady affair in their past who find themselves uncomfortably cast in a revival of a musty play from the 1930s. Their roles? A man and woman with a heady affair in their past.
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