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Flowers for Algernon -
By David Rogers, based on a novel by Daniel Keyes
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Directed by Matt Ripa
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Produced by Landless Theatre Company
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Reviewed by Tim Treanor
There are many things wrong with Landless Theatre Company’s production of Flowers for Algernon, but before we get to them let us celebrate the fine performance by Matt Baughman in the role of Charley Gordon. Charley, as you remember from the Cliff Robertson movie of the same name or from your high school reading, is a mentally retarded man who becomes the subject of an experimental surgery designed to radically increase his intellectual function. The experiment succeeds and Charley’s IQ soars from 68 to 185, but the change is not permanent, and his summer of light is filled with a wistful poignancy.
Rashomon
