THE CEZANNE SYNDROME
This is what playwright Normand Canac-Marquis, a French Canadian from Montreal, is trying to do in The Cezanne Syndrome. He presents several views of the same story, and tries to bring them together to reveal the complexity of what’s going on. Now that might be interesting to Cezanne buffs, and maybe even to other playwrights, but anyone in the market for an engaging drama had best look elsewhere.
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Well, almost never. In one brief scene, Killen gives a performance that is so authentic and unnerving that it made me think this play might have something in it after all. The scene involves Suzanne waking in a panic from a nightmare, and then breathlessly recounting the dream, which foreshadows her own traffic accident. As Killen babbles and gropes for comfort in Shaw’s arms, the play comes to life for a moment.
