Damaged for Life, and Inexorably Bent on Revenge
Neil GenzlingerOctober 2, 2014: The seats at New World Stages are comfortable enough as theater seats go, but you’re not comfortable for a second watching a show currently playing there, Stalking the Bogeyman, the riveting true story of one man’s search for his rapist. The play is based on an article that the journalist David Holthouse published in 2004 and later adapted into a story for the radio program This American Life. The trip from page and airwaves to the stage has only deepened it, thanks to several especially fine performances in the production, adapted and directed by Markus Potter. Roderick Hill plays Mr. Holthouse, who does not mince words when describing what happened to him in 1978, when he was 7. His parents (Kate Levy and Murphy Guyer), newly relocated to Anchorage, are befriended by another couple, here called the Crawfords (Roxanne Hart and John Herrera), and it is their son, a tightly wound 17-year-old jock, who attacks him.
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