Fast and Lewis

The Off Broadway run of Mark St. Germain’s drama Freud’s Last Session has been extended, and not for the first time. The dual analysis of Freud and C.S. Lewis now is not slated to leave the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater on West 64th St. until July 3, with the current cast of Martin Rayner and Mark H. Dold.
Though he hasn’t traveled all that far from this area, working a lot in NYC and at the Barrington Stage Co. in the Berkshires, I haven’t thought about Dold in years. Still, I recall him vividly as Sullen in Everett Quinton’s production of The Beaux Stratagem at the Yale Rep in the mid-1990s and especially for his Kurt Cobain impression in the Yale Cabaret’s brilliant grungification of Chekhov’s Ivanov, renamed Nirvanov.
Dold was also at the Long Wharf Theater here in New Haven opposite another mid-‘90s Yale School of Drama grad, Reg Rogers, in Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber; Dold’s most recent Long Wharf show was the East Coast premiere of Craig Lucas‘s The Singing Forest. In all that time, he doesn’t appear to have put on any weight. Unlike C.S. Lewis himself.