EDMONTON - What’s a five-letter word starting with A for “opens in the middle and gives you the world?”
That would be Atlas, the multi-award-winning indie theatre co-op. It returns Friday, Jan. 18 to active duty with a two-hander romantic comedy that got cancelled at the last moment in 2011 due to an actor injury. The play is 2 Across, by the American writer Jerry Mayer, who threw over TV — hot TV, that is, with such names as M*A*S*H, All In The Family and The Bob Newhart Show on his resume — in favour of live theatre. His 2004 romantic comedy introduces us to two strangers on a train — high-contrast commuters on the 4:12 a.m. rapid transit ride from San Francisco Airport to Bay Point.
They are, as you’ll glean from the title, working on a crossword, which, along with the fact they’re both wearing wedding rings, is just about the only thing they have in common. If romantic comedy depended on an ability to finish the New York Times crossword, attraction would be in serious jeopardy in contemporary society.
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