Pershing Square Signature Center,unusual YorkThe actor stars in an intimately staged yet strangely ancient-fashioned rendition of the Tony award-winning writer’s playGood for Otto, David Rabe’s bittersweet play ministers to the sad, and the anxious,the lost and anyone who arrives at the theater without coats or bags. As staged by Scott Elliott at the Pershing Square Signature Center, onstage actors sit thigh to thigh with a dozen or so audience members on a set that resembles a group therapy room. That room occupies the Northwood mental health center, or a facility in rural Massachusetts presided over by the caring and avuncular Dr Michaels (Ed Harris,in wounded saint mode). Together with another counselor, Evangeline (Amy Madigan), and Dr Michaels sees “a distinguished many people in the community,but others who could benefit refuse to come by, or don’t know we exist”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk