Review by Robert Avila of The SF Bay Guardian

By Robert Avila
SF Bay Guardian

Shotgun Players presents Joe Orton's farce, an enduring send-up of the
morally superior corruption of the middle classes. A couple of good-natured
bank robbers, Hal (Andy Alabran) and Dennis (Danny Wolohan), lie low with
the loot at Hal's house, where his mother has recently passed away. Cash and
corpse swap places in cupboard and coffin, while the regularly widowed Nurse
Fay (Renee Penegor) does some gold digging of her own with Hal's father, the
bewildered Mr. MacLeavy (Greg Lucey). Enter the bullying Inspector Truscott
(Jonathan Gonzalez), who deflects objections to his extralegal manner by
insisting that he is from the Water Board, and there's swapping aplenty as
Hal and Dennis attempt amid mounting chaos to make post-heist posthaste.
Written in the mid 1960s, Orton's play may not shock audiences as it once
did, but it exudes a blithe wickedness that still hits its mark. Director
Reid Davis manages his capable cast with perhaps too much restraint,
however. Despite winning moments, the play's exuberance seems muted
throughout.