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Cafe Depresso: Where Prozac, Caffeine and Black Leather Converge

by Tom Vegh
SF Bay Guardian Review January 31, 2001 (Brad Rosenstein)

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Tom Vegh's dark comedy follows the various members of a depression-therapy group, a motley crew of San Franciscans ranging from a lesbian photographer with AIDS to a Hungarian engineer. One narrative strand is concerned with an actual murder case in San Diego, but none of the play's disparate stories come to much, and the interrelationships remain undeveloped. Vegh's main interest is the characters, but despite a series of self-revelatory arias, nor much substance actually gets revealed. At the preview performance I saw, Samuel Sheng had fun in multiple roles, doing particularly bright work as an abusive therapist, and Stephen Pawley turned in the most accomplished performance, a funny turn as a travel agent desperate for romance. Director Dawson Moore throws a whole mess of theatrical styles into the mix, but other than some flashes of San Francisco wit, this java's pretty thin.
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