Sister Jamison Connelly (Kathleen Turner) is a blunt, hard-boiled nun with a past. She’s a hard case with a mouth like a longshoreman and an argumentative, no-nonsense manner.
She meets her match in Cory Randall (Evan Jonigkeit), a young drug addict so far gone it’s hard to imagine his recovery.
Nevertheless, he’s assigned to her by Father Michael Delpapp (Michael Berresse), who manages a minimum security rehab facility. She objects that Cory’s case is beyond her expertise and the program of treatment normally offered, but the priest insists.
That’s the set-up for Matthew Lombardo’s new play, High, the season opener for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. It’s a harsh portrait of contemporary addiction, and this production is not for the faint of heart: The language is crude, the characters’ confessional stories are horrific and their actions are tough to accept.
Read Rick Pender’s full review and get showtimes and tickets here.
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2010.
