The Mysterious Mystery of Mystery Street – A Little Too Much Mystery (FRIGID New York 2011)
by Karen Tortora-Lee on March 2, 2011
The Mysterious Mystery of Mystery Street
Go into The Mysterious Mystery of Mystery Street at the Kraine Theatre expecting a hard boiled detective story full of tersely delivered dialogue, dames and dicks and that’s what you’ll get, in a manner of speaking. It’s your typical setup: two hard talking detectives (Sergio Lodolce and Adam Brome) are behind a desk in some seedy joint down town when a hapless dame (Maggie McGuire) walks in. She’s leggy, lovely and looking for her brother; a few tears, a little exposition, some wisecracks and the dicks are soon hoofing it all over town on a random chase that leads them down the path of innuendo, wisecracks, double entendres and mistaken meaning, all culminating with a big shootout in a warehouse. Sounds like all the elements are there for the perfect noir send-up, yes? Well, yes. And . . . no.
