Atlanta Strip Clubs: Theater review: ‘Bear’ is loaded down with message

Posted on March 8th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs

Director Rachel May and her really loud ensemble certainly summon the energy and camp required of this s0-called “revenge comedy.” But Gunderson seems to work herself into a corner. Putting forth a feminist agenda, with the supposed goal of getting a bear onstage, she gets lost in a tangled forest of issues and caricatures, producing an uneven play-within-a-play that trots out familiar gay and redneck stereotypes and turns her heroines into victims.
With its dead animal carcasses and pop-culture references (Susan Boyle, karaoke, tell-all memoirs), the play slathers on ludicrous shenanigans and preachy sentiments. As the stakes shift and the structure lurches, the story struggles to find a cohesive ending — and ultimately tacks on about four.
When the hardworking Nan (Veronika Duerr) decides to exact revenge on her drunken and abusive deer-hunter husband, Kyle (Nicholas Tecosky), she summons her new friend Sweetheart (Taylor M. Dooley), a wannabe actor who works as a stripper, and her BFF, Simon (Clifton Guterman).

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