As Mondego, Brennan is dull and stodgy, convinced he’s insulated from implications of wrongdoing. Chorley’s Danglars is a mannered, well-fed, self-satisfied fat cat. Makaryk derives outstanding characterizations from his principals, starting with Chorley, Brennan and Keister. Like his character, Keeney commands the Maverick stage – yet as suave and disciplined as he has become, the Count is still tortured by the demons of his past. Fueled by vengeance, Keeney’s persona is white-hot in ferocity, relishing each moment of a cat-and-mouse pursuit of which only he is aware. Front and center is Keeney’s coldly elegant, enigmatic Count. While we witness various scenes of treachery, swordfights and other basic building blocks of an epic swashbuckler, Makaryk takes care to make the characters human. Morey, though, leavens the story’s mixture of dramatic elements with humor, generating an arch comedic tone quite similar to “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” The schemes he creates are positively Machiavellian. With single-mindedness bordering on obsession, the Count begins pulling strings – or, more accurately, nooses – for those who wronged him.
Stating “I must die in order to live,” Edmond uses his newfound wealth to give himself a complete makeover as “the Count of Monte Cristo.” So thorough is his new guise that not even his enemies recognize him as the man they sent to rot to death. Better still, Edmond is given a map to untold treasures buried decades earlier by the older man. The first step in Edmond’s scheme involves a chance meeting and friendship with Abbe Faria, an older inmate who shows Edmond a way out of prison. When his careful machinations eventually work to perfection, his enjoyment of payback is deliciously cold.
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Just as Edmond is about to wed his beloved fiancée, Mercedes, her jealous cousin Fernand Mondego (John Brennan) conspires with banker Eugene Danglars (David Chorley) and prosecutor Gerard de Villefort (Scott Keister) to have him incarcerated at Chateau Dieppe, “the worst prison in Europe,” without benefit of a trial or even a hint of the charges being leveled at him.ĭuring his seven years in stir, “Prisoner No. Our hero is Edmond Dantes (Michael Keeney), first mate of the commercial ship Farralon. Producer Nathan Makaryk not only serves as director he has also designed the set and the lighting, choreographed the combat scenes and, with David Chorley and Brian Newell, designed the sound, which adds effective, cinema-like underscoring for nearly every scene.ĭumas’ story takes us back to the politically unstable years immediately following Napoleon’s abdication of the throne of France and his exile to the island of Elba. Set in France between 18, “Monte Cristo” has all the elements needed to generate excitement: bad guys who wear their evil on their sleeves, a story that shows audiences the fabulous wealth of the rich and famous, and a sympathetic hero to root for. This year’s show is Charles Morey’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas père’s “The Count of Monte Cristo,” a classic tale of an innocent man wrongly imprisoned and how he plans retribution for those whose treachery had him locked away. In recent years the Fullerton company has staged “Treasure Island,” “The Manchurian Candidate” and “The Hobbit.” Every so often – about once a year – Maverick Theater mounts an epic adventure tale or large-scale drama with elaborate sets, costumes and special effects.
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