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Paradise Key

Presented by A Chick & A Dude Productions at Hyde Park Theatre

March 31-April 16, 2011

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a chick & a dude productions proudly presents Paradise Key, a play by Dean Poynor.

A hidden U.S. Army safe house in the Florida Keys provides the backdrop for this intense physical and metaphysical drama in which Counter-Intelligence Agent David Dunn (Shanon Weaver) has just one night to extract a possible vaccine for Polio from the mind of former Nazi physician Werhner Halb (Tom Green). Using early CIA interrogation techniques—both psychological and physical—David attempts to discover the truth about Halb’s formula. As the Faustian bargain unfolds, we learn that Halb acquired his knowledge by conducting experiments on human subjects in Nazi concentration camps. Halb will only offer information about the formula if David can first prove that he is a man, able to accept that in order to become the hero, he must first embrace the monster. Directed by Melissa Livingston.

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    Hyde Park Theatre

    511 West 43rd Street
    Austin, TX 78751

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    $10-$20 Thursdays
    $15-$20 Fridays & Saturdays

    Info Phone: 512-921-4264

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  • Dates & Times

    Dates:
    March 31-April 16, 2011

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    8:00 pm

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    • Event Name: Paradise Key
      "A tough situation handled with great casting"
      Review posted by: Stephen from Austin, TX, Apr 07, 2011
      

      Shanon Weaver as Dunn and Tom Green as Halb found a way to entertain me for two plus hours. I found that with a minimalist set and small cast that it helped set the tone for the drama. This play is... Expand

      Shanon Weaver as Dunn and Tom Green as Halb found a way to entertain me for two plus hours. I found that with a minimalist set and small cast that it helped set the tone for the drama. This play is advertised as physical drama involving psychological interrogation. The play is one that deals with the question of terrorism (1950s style) but still comparable to todays situation of terrorism. The dynamic between the two men becomes blurred. There were times that I wish there had been a bit more to learn about the CIA character. I believe the story had good merit. Collapse

    • Event Name: Paradise Key
      "What Will The Truth Cost?"
      Review posted by: Liz Bruns from Austin, TX, Apr 04, 2011
      

      The set is minimal - a table, a couple of chairs, a wall cabinet, a barred window, and a door. We're in an interrogation room. We quickly learn from CIA agent David Dunn that we're on a Florida Key... Expand

      The set is minimal - a table, a couple of chairs, a wall cabinet, a barred window, and a door. We're in an interrogation room. We quickly learn from CIA agent David Dunn that we're on a Florida Key island and that it's 1951. With Dunn is Werhner Halb, a doctor who performed "medical research" for the Third Reich, before he escaped to Argentina at the end of the war. The subjects of Halb's research were men, women and children of a Polish concentration camp. Jews. Dunn uses techniques employed by the CIA to try and loosen the tongue of Halb. He wants the formula for the polio vaccine, or so he thinks. The play presents an interesting quandary. Is it OK to torture those who have tortured others? In the first act we learn of the German atrocities of the war. In the second act, we witness the American atrocities. The two actors were superb. Hats off to both. Shanon Weaver as Dunn and Tom Green as Halb entertained me for 2+ hours, and then sent me home with something to think about. Collapse

    • Event Name: Paradise Key
      "Very Intense Play"
      Review posted by: Loel Graber from Austin TX USA, Apr 03, 2011
      

      When a play is advertised as physical drama involving psychological interrogation, you had best buckle your chin strap. This mounting lives up to the hype. Excellent performances by both Tom Green and... Expand

      When a play is advertised as physical drama involving psychological interrogation, you had best buckle your chin strap. This mounting lives up to the hype. Excellent performances by both Tom Green and Shannon Weaver tell the uncomfortable story. And the sound design is one of the best I have heard. I wish that the story did more to bring out the internal conflict of the interrogator. That would be a useful addition to the current climate of US certainty that we are the all good guys and the "terrorists" are all bad. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Paradise Key
      "A tough situation handled with great casting"
      Review posted by: Stephen from Austin, TX, Apr 07, 2011
      

      Shanon Weaver as Dunn and Tom Green as Halb found a way to entertain me for two plus hours. I found that with a minimalist set and small cast that it helped set the tone for the drama. This play is... Expand

      Shanon Weaver as Dunn and Tom Green as Halb found a way to entertain me for two plus hours. I found that with a minimalist set and small cast that it helped set the tone for the drama. This play is advertised as physical drama involving psychological interrogation. The play is one that deals with the question of terrorism (1950s style) but still comparable to todays situation of terrorism. The dynamic between the two men becomes blurred. There were times that I wish there had been a bit more to learn about the CIA character. I believe the story had good merit. Collapse

    • Event Name: Paradise Key
      "What Will The Truth Cost?"
      Review posted by: Liz Bruns from Austin, TX, Apr 04, 2011
      

      The set is minimal - a table, a couple of chairs, a wall cabinet, a barred window, and a door. We're in an interrogation room. We quickly learn from CIA agent David Dunn that we're on a Florida Key... Expand

      The set is minimal - a table, a couple of chairs, a wall cabinet, a barred window, and a door. We're in an interrogation room. We quickly learn from CIA agent David Dunn that we're on a Florida Key island and that it's 1951. With Dunn is Werhner Halb, a doctor who performed "medical research" for the Third Reich, before he escaped to Argentina at the end of the war. The subjects of Halb's research were men, women and children of a Polish concentration camp. Jews. Dunn uses techniques employed by the CIA to try and loosen the tongue of Halb. He wants the formula for the polio vaccine, or so he thinks. The play presents an interesting quandary. Is it OK to torture those who have tortured others? In the first act we learn of the German atrocities of the war. In the second act, we witness the American atrocities. The two actors were superb. Hats off to both. Shanon Weaver as Dunn and Tom Green as Halb entertained me for 2+ hours, and then sent me home with something to think about. Collapse

    • Event Name: Paradise Key
      "Very Intense Play"
      Review posted by: Loel Graber from Austin TX USA, Apr 03, 2011
      

      When a play is advertised as physical drama involving psychological interrogation, you had best buckle your chin strap. This mounting lives up to the hype. Excellent performances by both Tom Green and... Expand

      When a play is advertised as physical drama involving psychological interrogation, you had best buckle your chin strap. This mounting lives up to the hype. Excellent performances by both Tom Green and Shannon Weaver tell the uncomfortable story. And the sound design is one of the best I have heard. I wish that the story did more to bring out the internal conflict of the interrogator. That would be a useful addition to the current climate of US certainty that we are the all good guys and the "terrorists" are all bad. Collapse

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