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George F. Walker

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A Truly Bittersweet Suite Ending

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Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Mainline Theatre.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
26.11.2009

The final two one-acts of George F. Walker’s Suburban Motel Suite, Criminal Genius and Risk Everything, have been launched. Genuinely satisfying as theatre, the two served to provide a workout for laugh muscles I haven’t used in years.

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The Suite Goes On

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Featuring Loretta & The End of Civilization, MainLine Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
19.11.2009

I admit to being an easy laugh and I certainly had a bellyful when the two jealous suitors in Featuring Loretta pulled all their slapstick bits. Liz Burns had a wonderful deadpan delivery which made her Russian chambermaid (daughter of ex-KGB kingpin who shouts too much) delightfully funny. George Walker knows how to set up [...]

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How Suite This Is

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Suburban Motel, MainLine Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
13.11.2009

When I lived in Toronto there was a story about George F. Walker that he would leave whatever comfortable digs he may have been living in, to stay at a seedy East Side hotel in order to write. It seems to have done wonders for this multiple award-winning and prodigious playwright. This offering by Tableau [...]

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