![]() Jeffrey has the reins at first, driving the story and maintaining contact with the audience. O’Mahony’s play is just 65 minutes and this Michael Abercromby-directed production (for JackRabbit Theatre) doesn’t let its foot off the gas pedal for a second. The fast-talking Tonsils (Travis Jeffrey) initiates a series of countdowns toward the point where Tweezers decides the time is right to use it. He has a plan to make it a memorable one and settle a score. The action revolves around a 10th anniversary high school reunion, something that Tweezers (Hoa Xuande) regards with dread and anticipation. Let’s just say that as in many binary star systems, one body is visible to the eye while the other can only be inferred. The exact nature of their present relationship can’t be described further for spoiler reasons. Tweezers was the true outlier of the pair, however. Both were outsiders to some extent, copping it from the so-called “fountain gang” who hung around the schoolyard bubbler. O’Mahony’s orbiting bodies are Tonsils and Tweezers, boys who befriended each other in high school and have maintained a relationship ever since. Well, if you haven’t, you’ll know all about them by the time you’ve experienced Will O’Mahony’s Tonsils + Tweezers.īinary stars are this sparklingly-written play’s central – and arguably over-extended – metaphor. You’ve heard of binary stars, yes? The astrophysical phenomenon that sees two stars orbiting a common point?
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