Gus Kaikkonen

Theater Review: “The Skin of Our Teeth” — As Dark as the Daily News

July 4, 2018
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Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.

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Theater Review: “The Doctor’s Dilemma” — Problem Solved

August 17, 2017
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The ethical deliberations and the professional backbiting and banter of the doctors fare well in the skilled hands of the director and cast.

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Theater Review: A Stylish “Steel Magnolias” at Peterborough Players

February 16, 2017
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This Peterborough Players production deserves a longer run than it has in the company’s inaugural winter season.

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Theater Review: “Mass Appeal” — A Compelling Drama of Ritual

February 3, 2017
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Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.

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Theater Review: A Fresh Take on GBS’s “Pygmalion”

August 4, 2016
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The staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.

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Theater Review: “Annapurna” — A Trip Worth Taking

July 7, 2016
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A two-person engagement like Annapurna demands that mysterious quality from actors that we call “chemistry.”

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Theater Review: Peterborough Players’ “Born Yesterday” — The More Things Change …

August 13, 2015
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Writing seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can’t be escaped.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Exchanges” — A Comedy of Possibilities

July 2, 2015
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In many ways, Alan Ayckbourn in Intimate Exchanges has concocted the perfect recipe for a company like the Peterborough Players.

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Fuse Theater Review: An Uneven “Red” from the Peterborough Players

June 18, 2015
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There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko’s career.

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Theater Review: “The Voysey Inheritance” — A Masterpiece About Fraud, Capitalism, and Family

August 21, 2014
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The Voysey Inheritance comes to the Peterborough Players with distinction, and this production is persuasive evidence that it belongs in a wider repertory of contemporary theater.

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