Double header: 'Hand to God' and 'The Audience'
On Saturday I saw “Hand to God” at the Booth Theatre and "The Audience" at the Schoenfeld Theatre. Have you seen "Hand to God"? If so, can you please explain to me what this play is about? I was more than a bit in shock. Not what I was expecting. That is not to say it wasn't a good play or a good experience. I was just totally taken aback. "Hand to God" opened this week to stupendous reviews. So I thought I must see it. A shy teenage boy named Jason (played by talented Steven Boyer) has a hand puppet named Tyrone that speaks for Jason – the inner voice of his most repressed thoughts, but that the loud, assertive, licentious and foul-mouthed Tyrone has no second thoughts about expressing. Okay – this is an interesting concept to begin with: deep within our civilized public personas there are devilish and sexually repressed desires lurking within us that we are ashamed to acknowledge and speak about. Jason’s recently widowed mo...