In playwright David Myers’ “237 Virginia Avenue,” a father and son play a not-always friendly, increasingly freighted game of Monopoly.
Thomas bargains with Whittlesby in David Myers’ “237 Virginia Ave,” developed by Local Theater Company. When Rex asks son Eric, an adjunct professor, what he’s at work on, Eric says he’s writing about “Debt. History. Property.” To which Rex interjects, “Sexy. Sounds like a real bestseller,” with no small measure of sarcasm. The dice roll.
Rex and Eric engage in a friendly-ish, freighted, father-son game of Monopoly. It is 1654 and he is talking to Thomas, who is desperate to put distance between himself and his family’s ill fortunes. Or, as his presumptive benefactor summarizes, “Your father is in prison, your brother is a drunkard. You have no name, no title, no family.”
In addition to Whittlesby and Thomas, there is the mercenary Edmund and young landowner Jack , squabbling about the “savages” as they fight back a raid on the home. The 1800s find Franklin convincing the equally inebriated but less financially flush stagecoach driver Armfield of the fortune to be made by breeding the enslaved.
Jacob Dresch portrays Thomas in “237 Virginia Ave,” a man desperate to buy land in Virginia but needs a backer . Michael Ensminger, Provided by Local Theater Company A simple set intensifies each scene. As do the smart lighting and nuanced sound and projection design . Composed mostly of a table atop a square, wood-planked floor, ace set designer Markas Henry evokes the spare foundation of a home. But to this critic, it also — along with the verbal sparring of the actors — teased thoughts of a boxing ring.
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