Macbeth

Lamplight Theatre Company (LTC), UT

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"I was especially enamored with McCarthy in the moment of her most famed speech as she has reached her highest levels of regret and is intensely trying to wash off her levels of shame from her hands. Her performance was prodigious and memorable. Maren Scriven - Utah Theatre Bloggers

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The American Dream

TAG, Honolulu, HI

 

The American Dream opens with middle-aged Mommy (Rebecca Lea McCarthy) and the somewhat older Daddy (Tim Jeffryes) nervously awaiting a visitor in the living room of their New York apartment. They complain about the leaky “johnny” in the bathroom and an overall inability to get satisfaction these days. While Daddy tries to read his newspaper, Mommy, in a tailored shirt-dress with a red ribbon in her long black hair, stomps back and forth like a little girl in high heels and boasts about having made “a terrible scene” in a store over the color of a hat. Complaining about her mother, who lives with them and whom she wants to send to a nursing home, “I can live off you because I married you,” she tells Daddy, whom she alternately bullies and pets, making him wriggle with pleasure or dismay.

Fully inhabiting their increasingly bizarre roles, McCarthy and Jeffryes carry off Albee’s acerbic dialogue and surreal images, creating a convincing portrait of a long-married couple with a horrible, unmentionable secret. Mindy Pennybacker - Hitting the Stage ​