One of my CUNY PhD students lived in a tiny clapboard house in Broad Channel, Queens. Just under the flight-pattern into Idlewild Airport - now JFK. When I first drove there in my old VW, I thought I was driving into a wetlands area. Everyone seemed to have at least a rowboat tethered on canals back of their houses. Most of the good folks I met there were shanty Irish, with scant aspirations of earning midtown Doctorates in Theater. But Doc Dougherty has now wonderfully recreated a wild young Irish-American, growing up slightly absurd among other confused, crazy, even criminal teenagers of various ethnic backgrounds. This is both hilarious and sad. Doc drafted this memoir with Anna Theresa Cascio. As he performs it, it sound very much like a Lived Experience.
Previews:
April 10, 2003
Opened:
April 13, 2003
Ended:
May 4, 2003
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Theater Type:
off-off-Broadway
Theater:
Phil Bosakowski Theater
Theater Address:
354 West 45th Street
Phone:
(212) 279-4200
Genre:
Solo
Director:
Molly Fowler
Review:
Cast:
Doc Dougherty
Technical:
Set: Michelle Malavet; Sound: Elizabeth Rhodes; Lighting: Greg McPherson
Miscellaneous:
This review first appeared in NYTheatre-wire.com
Critic:
Glenn Loney
Date Reviewed:
May 2003
