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review from L. A. Weekly     April 13, 2006

it was given the column's "GO"

GO   WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY Peter Miller (Randy Irwin) is a business executive with a conscience. His boss, however, is not. Roger Sizemore (Matthew Kimbrough), rapacious CEO of a multinational corporation, makes WorldCom’s Ebbers, Adelphia’s Rigas and Enron’s Lay look like choirboys. Miller has that conscience tested at a weekend mountain retreat when Sizemore and his accountant, Carl (a suitably sycophantic Phil Proctor), court him to lead a fiscally dubious project. Add a sex scandal with a prostitute (Hollace Starr) that threatens to sink Sizemore’s chances to be named secretary of the treasury and Miller may be in just over his head. Samuel Warren Joseph’s dark comedy hilariously skewers a take-no-prisoners corporate culture that would do a cost-benefit analysis on human suffering and for which death may be more profitable than life. Under Billy Hayes’ direction Irwin makes a confident turn as the conflicted yet calculating Miller, but Kimbrough’s clichéd Sizemore should have a mustache to twist while dastardly menacing his “inferiors.” Meanwhile, other key characters Byron (Ty Granderson Jones), a profanity-spewing black pimp, and Maria (Roxana Brusso), a heavily accented Latina hooker, suffer from stereotypes of the ethnic persuasion. Still in all, Joseph’s snappy one-liners, Hayes’ adept staging and the play’s numerous twists and turns compensate for these foibles.

The MET Theater, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., Hlywd.; Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.; thru May 14. (323) 957-1152. (Martín Hernández)

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