Dear Holmey

DEAR HOLMEY

Dear Holmey was written by two of the actors in the show–Clark Weber, who plays Dean Holmes, an advice columnist for a Chicago newspaper, and Karen Cole, who portrays a character with no apparent relevance to the plot. The show was directed by another cast member, Todd L. Yearton. Dear Holmey is the first show staged by Yakity Yak Productions, a group formed for the purpose. Creating his own production company was clearly the only way Weber could get his script staged, for the plot of Dear Holmey is so incoherent and arbitrary, and the dialogue so inane, that the play verges on surrealism.

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What is the point of this absurdity? After he gets good and drunk, Holmey steps forward and delivers the answer: “There’s only one way to success, and that’s through sweat,” he tells the audience. “If more people realized this, I wouldn’t have to sit at my typewriter and piece together people’s lives.”