THEATER REVIEW- Rose Gets Shot

Rose Gets Shot is a highly stylized piece of “who dunnit?” theater noir. Set in a brothel, everyone is suspect when the Madame, Rose, goes missing. Detective Buchanan is determined to discover the truth, as he paces the “winding streets” and a voiceover rings out the contents of his troubled mind, “Who was she? What was she doing? Who wanted her shot? And mostly, who wanted to shoot her?”

Comical in the way it is dead serious, it was fun to watch, though entirely devoid of the deeper thematic undertones the playwright alleged to intend.