Three Hotels, by Jon Robin Baitz, directed by Robert Falls on a Set by Thomas Lynch at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, by Michael Miller
Three Hotels
by Jon Robin Baitz
directed by Robert Falls
June 29 – July 24 , Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage
Creative Team:
Scenic Design by Thomas Lynch
Lighting Design by James F. Ingalls
Costume Design by Susan Hilferty
Cast:
Steven Weber - Kenneth Hoyle
Maura Tierney - Barbara Hoyle
Some years ago, when my sons were small and I used to frequent school fairs and street fairs, I always looked at the inflatable play structures with trepidation. As the children bounced about on them, it seemed to me inevitable that some exuberant or malicious one among them would puncture the balloon, and I imagined the whole—roof and pillars, dinosaur head, safety nets and everything—slowly and harmlessly caving in, until there was nothing left but a flaccid heap of plastic and rubber...and a horde of thoroughly delighted children worming their way out to the street, running away, and dancing tauntingly before their distraught nannies or parents. Minus the kids, this experience and the attendant fantasy came to mind during the boring moments of Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels—of which there were many—and the evening gave me a more tangible idea of what such a deflation might actually be like: the show steadily kept on losing energy, until it finally collapsed.

