		It's Stupid To Steal When the Sun Is Out
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CLICK HERE FOR RECENT REVIEWS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER CLICK ON PLAY FOR AUDIENCE REVIEWS FOR THAT PLAY Abducted Action! Asian for Dummies Ball and Daisy Chain Can You See Me? Certain Things... Chinese Clown Cabaret Cincinatti Come Fly With Me Nude Comedy on the Square divagation Faker Flame and the Stone Flower Murderer Framework Future Folkloric Hollywoodland Home/Darkness Hooray for Speech... It's Stupid to Steal... Late Night With God Long-Form Improv &... m.i. blue's TWILITE... Magic @ the Fringe Moliere Than Thou nEO-sURREALISTS Present Other American Stories Oui Be Negroes PAIN Quarter Into It Rabbit Causes Dog Rap Canterbury Tales Reframing the Hourglass Short and Sweet... some life Subhuman-True Tales... This Love Train... Thrilling Adventures... Tonight: The Harsh … Under the Counter... Viva Karaoke!... Viva Vivi Wrestling an Alligator Young War Zeppelin Beach Improv		Play: It's Stupid to Steal... Reviewer: Nick Strange Reviewer Email: Note to Hank Di Giovanni: Slow down. Take your time. Find the moments. Develope your rapport with the audience. Work on your comic timing. Relax. Trust the material instead of driving it like a semi down Highway 5. Also, get rid of the hard hat as soon as possible as it casts a shadow over your eyes. When I can't see your eyes I can't tell if anything that's being said is registering emotionally with the actor, or if you're just faking it. If the problem is with getting such a large amount of material out in sixty minutes, then cut some of the material. I'd suggest starting with the gravesite solioquy, as it's too cute, redundant, and out of character with everything else. Both the writing and the acting had a lot of potential that I thought was undercut by the lack of direction. Play: It's Stupid to Steal when the sun is out Reviewer: Stunned Reviewer Email: Rating: None No, I did not forget to click onto the rating chart. This show was brutal. The man who did this one man show, as attractive onstage as he was, should not step on the stage until he can get his lines down. For Christ sake, this is close to the end of the festival...and it still comes off like he is struggling? It went from I'm rooting for him to "Oh please make this stop" Even if it was a choice in vocal pattern, it was a poor, poor choice. The direct eye contact became uncomfortable. The content and veiled one liners became tedious. And just for my sanity, no human being wipes their hands that long after eating a tiny piece of doughnut unless they have anal retentive problems. I don't know if even he like what he was doing. I grieve for the people who was thanked in this program in San Francisco. It will make me think twice about going to any productions that would put up this ten percent realized piece of... Theatre? Play: It's Stupid to Steal when the sun is out Reviewer: fringelover Reviewer Email: Rating: 1 Star I wasn't going to write a review, but I am surprised by the above review! This guy barely knew his lines and bridged his moments with a nervous "so, you know, uh" constantly, looking over our heads in hopes of thinking of his next line. Hopefully it will tighten up as the fringe progresses, but I felt like he just wasn't ready for prime-time. And the script just sort of sat there with no real point to the rambling...I guess I chuckled a few times when he really got going on a chunk that he knew pretty well... Play: It's Stupid to Steal when the Sun is Out Reviewer: Nancy Reviewer Email: Rating: 4 Stars Here's a delightful one-man comedy that was TOO SHORT. We were enjoying an intimate theatre experience, feeling like we were in a bar with a funny buddy, when all of a sudden, he had to get back to the construction site. Bummer. We wanted more. Check it out, well written, well performed and well worth your time.