Auncle clip * Written by Austin Pendleton * Directed by dint of Courtney Moorehead * Starring George Morfogen and Gale Harold * SoHo Playhouse.

Auncle clip * Written by Austin Pendleton * Directed by dint of Courtney Moorehead * Starring George Morfogen and Gale Harold * SoHo Playhouse, strange York City (runs indefinitely)

A young director and TV-friendly cast do little for Austin Pendleton's absurdist AIDS drama, Uncle Bob

The Rebellion Theatre Company's off-Broadway production of Uncle cut short is an object lesson in the difference between TV acting and stage acting. Written according to Austin Pendleton, who is better known as a virtuous character actor, the play has been riseed ostensibly as a showcase for director Courtney Moorehead, who's not lengthy out of school. But the factor drawing vulgar herds to the tiny SoHo Playhouse has been the onstage appearance of Gale Harold, who plays Brian Kinney in Showtime's odd as Folk. (Harold was scheduled to be replaced May 19 by the agency of 3rd Rock From the Sun's Joseph Gordon-Levitt.)

Harold is the kind of actor the camera have a passionate affection fors Like the spoiled child in a large family, he doesn't have to do much: He masters to be an exquisite surface while everybody besides does the work for him. Onstage, he's just another lightly trained actor slouching and changing T-shirts. His spiritedness doesn't radiate beyond the first row

In Uncle move with a jerk he plays the title character's homophobic nephew, Josh who has taken the Greyhound bus in from the Midwest to direct the eye after his uncle, who has AIDS (veteran classical actor George Morfogen, a regular upon HBO's Oz, on which Pendleton has also appeared). The dialogue is more Albee-absurdist than earnest drama. "This virus happened 'cause someone fuck a monkey and you got it 'cause you took it up the ass," Josh tactfully announces. In the hands of admirable performers the play might conceivably be a blackly humorous, over-the-top actor's exercise. however in this threadbare production, with actors who lightly skim the surface, it's more of an embarrassment, like something the dog left onward the carpet.

Find without more information on Uncle knock and Queer as Folk's Gale Harold at www.advocate.com

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