![]() With three phones ringing at different times and restaurant bustle in evidence below the attic, Joe Micallef’s sound design is crucial to the play as is Jessica Lewis’s lighting design. It feels noisy and large even though there’s only one actor. This comedy is very cleverly constructed to build a whole world of people on stage. The set is as chaotic as Sam’s day becomes when co-worker Bob apparently has a car break down on the highway. (Programs are digital only.)įully Committed, which is the industry term for fully booked, is set on an upper floor, like an attic, with visible slats on the walls, an old, artificial Christmas tree, two desks and a lot of stuff. Webb is also the set designer and this year, in order “to improve operational and environmental efficiency,” according to program notes, Neptune is “reimagining” props, sets and costumes. Neptune’s artistic director Jeremy Webb directs for a swift pace and a good balance of the outrageous characters, expressed in dynamic physicality, with the pleasant, pleading notes in Sam’s character. Lalama, who was in Neptune’s production of Pleasureville and moved to Halifax just before the pandemic, takes on 40 characters clearly delineating each one from a squeaky-voiced, would-be diner to a gruff and crude narcissistic chef to the elegant but very distressed French hostess. ![]() As the day gets crazier and crazier, this endearing character learns how to gain courage and work the system.įully Committed, written in 1999 by American playwright (and former New York actor and waitress) Becky Mode, is a satire on $300-a-plate dinners, “molecular gastronomy” and a world of wealth and celebrity. The 90-minute, one-person show without intermission – the first play staged by Neptune Theatre in 18 months – is a rollicking ride as Sam, an unemployed actor working the reservation line at a high-end New York restaurant, is bombarded by entitled socialites and celebrity handlers.Īt the same time Sam is juggling their widowed father who wants them home for Christmas and waiting for a callback for a role at the Lincoln Center. (Stoo Metz)īreton Lalama’s performance in the madcap, fancy restaurant, send-up Fully Committed is a phenomenal feat of ever-changing voices and physical gestures. Breton Lalama plays Sam, a tormented, would-be actor working a reservation line in a fully booked restaurant, in Fully Committed, at Neptune Theatre to Oct.
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