An 'angelic' fairy tale
Tom Byrn, Nick Masson, Emily Karpiuk (over Masson's shoulder) and Catherine Maloney in Hampton Theatre Company's "My Three Angels" in Quogue through Nov. 6, 2011.(Oct. 24, 2011) Credit: Tom Kochie
The quaintly amusing "My Three Angels," the '50s play and movie ("We're No Angels"), takes us back to a less ambiguous time in director Sarah Hunnewell's handsome Hampton Theatre Company revival.
Three convicts employed by a good-hearted but inept shopkeeper rescue his family at Christmastime. Two are convicted murderers: played by Tom Byrn and Nick Masson; the third (Edward Kassar), a swindler. Each makes the case for supposed evil overcoming coldhearted rectitude. The shopkeeper's cousin (Terry Brockbank) is about to ruin the family. His nephew (Tyler Gardella) will break a heart.
As the shopkeeping spouses, Blake Walton and Catherine Maloney are believably incapable of dissembling. Equally disarming is Emily Karpiuk as their hopelessly romantic daughter.
This bent fairy tale unfolds on James Ewing and Diana Marbury's charming turn-of-the-last-century tropical set.
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