A Fatal Step
The Marsh Theatre - San Francisco
Written and performed by Jill Vice
Directed by Mark Kenward
Developed with David Ford
January 18-April 29, 2018
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Jill Vice (photo: John Orvis) |
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Jill Vice (photo: John Orvis) |
Vice is a master of eight different characters, with eight different voices and mannerisms that she engages in fast-paced dialog, so convincing that you can visualize them all, from the Bogart-infused idealistic podiatrist husband to the mousy good girl who threatens to steal him away to the bedridden mother appropriately named Mona, because that’s what she does, to the smart-ass Lyft driver, and others. It’s an ingenious and fun device to have the setting be contemporary but threaded with 40’s film noir patter and drama. Vice is a one-woman character machine, bringing the story to life in practiced perfection.
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Jill Vice and Eddie Muller, the "Czar of Noir" (photo: Bill Selby) |
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