Dead Ringer - "a tightly wound production, intense and suspenseful"

Cape Cod Times: 'Dead Ringer' mines dark emotions by Debbie Forman

"Only one of three people in "Dead Ringer" is actually locked up - in a root cellar. But the other two have created prisons of their own. And that is at least one of the messages of Gino DiIorio's play, a Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater production at its Harbor Stage for the next month...

Brendan Hughes, the impresario of the Harbor Stage and director of the play, presents a tightly wound production, intense and suspenseful. Robert Kropf, who sensitively captured the title character in WHAT's production of "Cyrano" earlier this summer, puts on another hat - and a totally other persona - as Tyrus, the vitriolic jailer. Kropf has amazing versatility. He is able to inhabit a diversity of characters with remarkable authenticity.

And we can say the same about Jonathan Fielding, who plays Dwight. A multitalented actor, Fielding played Christian and several other cavorting roles in WHAT's production of "Cyrano" and the sad-sack brother in the company's June play, "Colorado." Fielding's Dwight is meek at first; he winces at Tyrus' vehemence and even backs away from Mary's aggressive talk, although she is safely - for him - behind a locked door. The pair's menacing behavior soon has an effect on Dwight, and we watch a transformation.

Although unseen, Brenda Withers gives a powerful performance as the imprisoned Mary, whose body may be limited but whose mind soars. Confined to this cellar, she creates her own world, as she suggests we all do with our imagination." (full review)