Review: “A Walk in the Woods” is a good one – don’t miss it!

Dan & Krista

This is one you don’t want to miss.

Watching Island Stage Left‘s fall offering “A Walk in the Woods” provides a flashback to the Cold War’s conversations in the arms race (and Soviet & US efforts to tone it down).

Lee Blessing’s script doesn’t play the historical card, though….the reason the show won so many awards (and kudos from this island!) is the way it humanizes the folks who had the weighty task of achieving trust, keeping a conversation going, and ultimately trying to achieve something.

Wow…that sounds like just about anybody keeping any relationship going, doesn’t it? Dan Mayes & Krista Strutz do the job with a sometimes intense, sometimes funny, always absorbing performance. The two negotiators begin their connection from scratch, with the objective of talking about arms reduction…and proceed from there.

You know those conversations – wit, being careful to pick just the right words & phrases, the little chess game of wondering what effect your words will have seven moves later – Dan & Krista hit a great rhythm with a challenging but engaging & often funny script. Great chemistry for a two-person show.

I believe this show is going to be one you talk about afterwards…I know Josie & I (and our friends who went) had a long visit about it.

See it.

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