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Gash to go on in ‘Sleuth’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kent Gash directed the Alliance Theatre’s “Sleuth” — and tonight he’ll go on for ailing actor David De Vries, playing British detective novelist Andrew Wyke, a character who entraps his wife’s lover in a convoluted psychological chess match.
Gash could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps he was holed up studying the script.
It’s a big part, and according to Alliance spokesman Robert Saxon, it was Gash’s decision not to hire an understudy for De Vries, who is said to be suffering “vocal stress.”
Saxon said that some patrons may see tonight’s pinch-hitting as the kind of “adventure” that only live theater can offer. He said the box office would work with audience members who would like to re-schedule or get a refund.
Gash will play opposite Carl Cofield’s Milo Tindle. Both actors are African-American, so it will be interesting to see what they make of the material, which Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine famously captured in a 1972 film.
As best as we can tell, Gash has not appeared onstage in Atlanta since the 1987 national tour of “La Cage Aux Folles” at the Fox Theatre.
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