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Refuge Of Lies, from the Chalmers Award-winning writer Ron Reed, is a stark tale of deception, redemption, and the inescapable past. Richard Mawe stars as Rudi Vanderwaal, a Nazi collaborator under an assumed name who's fled from Holland to Paraguay to Canada attempting to escape his past. Pursued throughout the play by a Jewish reporter from his home country, his character--and the story itself--shift seamlessly back and forth through more than fifty years of Rudi's life as he struggles towards absolution and judgment for his sins. Mawe's performance in the lead role is as dark and trouble as his award-winning turn in Death of Salesman, offset beautifully by Lorraine Serabian's portrayal of his conflicted wife. Refuge Of Lies treads a good many fine lines, both thematically and in terms of the production. While the time-shifting aspect of the story is well-done and never jarring, the sound design is a bit over-the-top, if not just too loud. Set-wise, the skewed lines of the single set loom ominous, nightmarishly, over the unfolding events of the past and present. The questions of justice versus vengeance, contrition versus redemption, and forgiveness versus punishment run through this story endlessly as God's law struggles with the laws of men for the fate of Rudi's soul.
Refuge Of Lies is playing at the Lion Theatre in Theatre Row until September 28th.
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