Boom
Boom By Andrew Connor
IL Productions
Blue Venue, Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival</strong>
Bombs get such a bad rap – find one in a grade school, and you’d think the world had ended. But according to the Bomb Makers Credo, bombs should not be used for anything other than their best and highest purpose. In the world of master bombster Louis Calvin, bombs can effectively rid fields of unwanted butterflies, paint a wall, and teach his niece Rosa important life lessons. A new Space Port is slated for New Rockwell, and while the city is seduced by the prospect of high paying jobs, Louis regards the whole escapade as a futile waste of time. An old school chum returns and offers him a high paying job building bombs to crush the space port’s competition. Desperate for rent money, he agrees but isn’t happy, and it takes Rosa to make him see the error of his ways.
Despite the Precocious Child conceit, Mr. Connor tells a touching story and keeps his half dozen characters separate enough so we never get bogged down in book keeping. Bombs aren’t really for exploding here, but simply serve as a metaphor for any specialized skill that could be applied for good or evil. Best of all, this show ends about 5 minutes before you think it will. I almost wanted it to keep going, but a crisp ending is so rare these days -positively refreshing!
Find out more about Boom at http://www.infinitelaughs.com/html/boom.html This show is presented as part of the 17th Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival. Information on times, tickets, and venue location my be found at http://OrlandoFringe.org/
