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Fringe review: 'Lolita' a funny, novel drama
Jun. 1, 2013
Those Four Humors Theatre guys are back to the Fringe Festival for the fifth time and once again they do not disappoint.
This time the Minneapolis-based troupe goes for comedy instead of whimsy or mystery, presenting “Lolita: A Three Man Show,” which they describe as “a one-hour stage play, based on a two-and-a-half-hour movie by Stanley Kubrick, based on the five-hour screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov, based on the 300-page novel by Vladimir Nabokov, as told by three idiots.”
What these three idiots (Ryan Lear, Brant Miller and Matt Spring) manage to do is both dramatize Nabokov’s 1955 novel (and Kubrick’s 1962 film adaptation) and riotously send it up at the same time.
Lear smoothly plays Humbert Humbert the erudite but creepy college professor who narrates his memories of his obsession with his prepubescent stepdaughter that took them both on a mysterious cross-country journey and led to his ultimate misery and ruin.
Chubby and unshaven Miller plays Lolita, the object of Humbert’s lust. Needless to say, Miller could not look any less like a young nymphet – particularly when he sports a pink polka-dot bikini.
Spring plays all the other characters including Humbert’s nemesis Quilty, Lolita’s overbearing mother, and a rambling messenger with a quivering hand who keeps interrupting the story but leaves the audience reeling with laughter anyway.
They’re all very funny with credit due as well to director Jason Ballweber.
And they provide a terrific little twist at the end when contemporary attitudes about pedophilia enter the show.
One quibble: on opening night at the Know Theatre, the background music was often too loud, sometimes drowning out the actors who were trying to speak over it.
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