Soon, Linsey Falls’ Friday (also with abundant facial hair) reveals to Syme that he too is a Scotland Yard plant. Walsh’s Tuesday, whose gravity-defying facial hair is only slightly less convincing than his Polish accent, is the first to be outed as a spy in the council. And she’s assembled a cracking good ensemble to play the detectives-turned-terrorists.Ĭhristopher M. Though the New Leaf staging had the advantage of the flexible space in the Lincoln Park Cultural Center, Hutchinson’s staging for Lifeline seldom feels constrained by the more traditional theatrical setting. But if the price of surface order is not knowing who is really pulling the strings in the guts of the state, is it worth the game? Fortunately, Dardai’s sculpted script mostly manages to keep the philosophical disquisitions from overpowering Chesterton’s highly polished wit. Chesterton’s own love of order (he even wrote a book called “Orthodoxy”) stood in contrast to the radical politics of George Bernard Shaw. Now with chaos as the operating principle of our government, it cuts in two different directions at once.Ĭertainly many of us wish to live in more orderly (if less-interesting) times. At that time, with the Obama presidency still boasting that hopeful new-administration smell, it played more as a commentary on the rise of the War on Terror under the Bush/Cheney administration. Soon, he finds he’s not the only mole in the anarchist hill, which is dominated by Allison Cain’s fearsome Sunday.ĭardai’s play first got an outing in 2009 with the now-defunct New Leaf Theatre Company, also directed by Hutchinson.

Syme outwits Gregory in the election and is elected as the new Thursday. He manipulates Lucian Gregory (Cory Hardin), a fellow poet with overt radical inclinations, into taking him along to a meeting where the members will elect a new representative to the chief council of anarchists - a group of seven people whose code names reflect the days of the week. Syme (Eduardo Xavier Curley-Carrillo), a poet, has been recruited - coerced, really - into joining Scotland Yard’s anti-anarchist undercover squad.

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