![]() What’s missing is any sense of conflict between the characters. Nowitzky) who utters dire prophecies on the adult traumas that await Doug, and the old Colonel (Jack Greenman) who becomes the characters in his vivid memories-a living time machine. In the course of the play we meet a robust array of quirky characters.Īmong the most superbly rendered are Leo (Charlie Bachmann), the gregarious inventor hard at work on his “happiness machine” an automated Tarot Witch (Vanessa M. ![]() “I need to borrow the way you see,” he tells Doug.Īnd Doug must learn from Bill to stop clinging desperately to the populace of his youthful memories, to make way for the man he will become.įreezing in time is the play’s central metaphor, symbolized in the dandelion wine Doug’s grandfather (Richard Jones) bottles and labels for each day of the magical summer-”We’re bottling up 1928,” he exclaims with ironic satisfaction.īarbour’s Forrester hits all the right notes of sincerity and loss.īut we sometimes wish for more variation in Shipley’s relentlessly high-amplitude Doug. We quickly realize that Forrester is Doug’s future self at age 38, returned to recapture the lucidity he lost along the way to maturity. ![]() Clearly a man on a quest, he tells Doug by way of explanation: “Sometimes people lose touch with themselves and then they have to find out why. ![]()
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