Review: The Last Five Years (2009) by Penfold Theatre Company

by Michael Meigs
Published on January 04, 2009

As this very handsome pair of actors work the story from both ends, we begin to realize that Brown and director Michael McKelvey are carefully dosing our emotions. Everyone loves someone who is in love.

Intimate but lonely, a haunted portrait of a relationship with the musical flair and lash of cabaret – The Last Five Years, produced by Penfold Theatre and now playing at the Larry L. King Theatre of Austin Playhouse, is a memorable evening spent with two talented characters in the most promising years of their lives. No one wants to watch the failure of a marriage, to hover as witnesses as hope, delight and enthusiasm go …

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