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Thursday, September 25, 2014

1st Stage’s ‘Take Me Out’ swings for the fences but falls short in some areas

Paradoxically, given that his life revolves around a whizzing ball, this sportsman uses stillness to advantage. As portrayed by actor Jaysen Wright, in 1st Stage’s otherwise uneven production of Richard Greenberg’s “Take Me Out,” the gay baseball star named Darren Lemming is economical with movement when off the diamond. Whether he’s holding a news conference or parrying tension-fraught raillery in the clubhouse or gazing at an adversary with a mixture of tamped-down sadness and anger, Wright’s Darren anchors his surroundings with dramatic poise. This hotshot center fielder doesn’t need to fidget. He has earned his cool, seductive arrogance.


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