Review of STEALING A KISS by Onstage NTX, which is being performed by Rover Dramawerks in Plano, Texas in their short play festival through this weekend.
In Laurie Allen’s Stealing a Kiss, directed by Deborah Little Key, we see a widow and widower (Anthony Magee, Sue Goodner) standing at a bus stop. Harvey tries to have “a little fun while waiting on the bus” but Sue seems to pay no attention. Harvey tries from every angle to forge some kind of kinship with Sue—but she’s not interested in any of Harvey’s childlike antics, and would rather be alone “in her thoughts” until the bus arrives. Magee and Goodner teach a master class in storytelling with impressive performances on stage. (Allen lives in Odessa, TX.)