InProximity Theater Company's Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies is that rare occurrence where it bats a thousand in all departments: play, acting, directing, design (James J. Fenton), lighting (Lisa Soverino) and costumes (Court Watson). Everything is beautifully done. The play is about Art, about artists, about the interacting of several social levels, about ambition, the consequences of success, the consequences of love. It's directed by a master composer of movement, action and emotion, Dorothy Lyman, with not a false note in the acting. The cast is Jonathan Todd Ross as the painter, Laurie Schaefer as his former love, Brent Vimtrup as her rural current husband and Bryn Boice as a German interviewer (or interrogator), and each is superb -- totally immersed in his or her character.
Margulies is a terrific writer-- really smart, insightful, knowledgeable, and Sight Unseen runs through October 10th at Theater 54. If you want to see theater at its best, catch it.
