THEATRE REVIEW: ‘MEASURE FOR PLEASURE’ RIGHT ON TIME AT THE GARAGE THEATRE

DAVID GRIMM'S 'MEASURE FOR PLEASURE' IS NOW PLAYING AT GARAGE THEATRE

BY GREGGORY MOORE

They say timing is everything. It isn’t, of course—but in some plays it’s pretty damn near to it. David Grimm’s Measure for Pleasure is one of those plays. Are the words on the page funny? Clever? At times, yes. But if even the most literary scripts can be ruined in performance (as I once saw CSU Fullerton do to Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia), one like Grimm’s—almost all jokes and timing—owes half its soul to the performers. Fortunately, the Garage Theatre got rhythm.