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SCTC gave them that and more with a script written by the theatrically beleaguered author, Albert Innaurato.

Albert F. Innaurato was born in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in south Philadelphia on June 2, The neighborhood experience is recreated in.

Innaurato wrote more plays, few of which were critically praised and widely accepted by audiences, and he now keeps busy writing for newspapers and magazines about music and opera. The audiences on opening night enjoyed the methods that SCTC found to take GEMINI away from the cartoonish productions of the s and make it a more realistic and genuine presentation.

Croce and Reiter allow the characters to show the angst of the times dealing with a largely unspoken societal issue, but a solid resolution with a depth of feeling is not to be found. This is due to Innaurato, however, as the script does not provide an ending that generates for the audience any relief or acceptance. Croce and Reiter find the ethnic eccentricities in the script and use them to best advantage to showcase these South Philly characters as they make us laugh with their varying levels of dysfunction.

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The characters are in-your-face, self-serving and confident of themselves in the way that dysfunctional people can be. They believe they are always right and everything happening around them is there for them to overcome as the heroes they have convinced themselves they are. These attitudes lead to hearty amusement at people we can identify with at some level.

Maybe we have known Italians or Jews who have these quirks but not quite to the levels presented by this cast. Croce and Reiter bring out the laughs in the situations and use the stage space deftly and cleverly designed and executed by Robert Bingaman well. Stained awnings, climbing ivy and the general grunge established time and place effectively.

The curtains masking the house entrances did not always allow the quick exits required by some of the action. It was distracting but not overly harmful. The SCTC audience raking and some blocking did cause visibility problems when action moved from standing to sitting or lying on the floor.