WELCOME TO THE WHITE ROOM
by T.E. Klunzinger
I don’t quite know what to say. “Welcome to the White Room,” an Ixion production which opened Saturday night at the Robin Theatre, is short. And extremely white. Although it has a black man in it.
Mostly it features three people – Ms. White (Jacquelyne Marks), Mr. Jennings (Paul Schmidt) and Mr. Paine (Nick Lemmer) – who apparently know each other, who are in a very white room and sort of play games with each other. They eat a deck of playing cards. And there’s dancing, although that’s hardly a plot point.
Eventually, Patrick (Daniel Bonner) shows up and seems to hold the answer to the many questions that have been asked. Maybe. And it helps if you know gaming strategies.
Director Leo Poroshin keeps his actors moving briskly along on an apparently-circular track to somewhere. I think. I would have thought about this more but I spent the rest of the evening waiting for Godot.
“Welcome to the White Room” by Trish Harnetiauex is at 8 pm on Saturdays, 2 pm on Sundays at the Robin Theatre, 1105 South Washington though October 28.
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