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DocuSign Envelope ID: F859AB28-066D-45E9-BB24-D873BDC015A0 « ne 's End" by Dee Dish Cast of Jour y The p i Is Incredibly • Engles h WTI Vet R.C. Sheriff Talented Posted by Sarah Rose McQuillan+•March 7th,2015•Printer-friendly - and Max Biter(photo by Jonathan Young) Karen O'Brien, offered a ,Journey's End"stars(from left)Carl Maerformrance of Journey's End, directed bY and World War I Deep Dish Theater Company's intimate Friday-night p soldiers. English playwright leasant balance between heavy emotional material and comedic relief. riveting revelation of the often-overlooked mental wars and demons fought y the trickle into the small theater. veteran R.C. Sherriff's 19 single play maintains a p takes place in a single setting;and a warm, rustic glow strikes the audience as Y The story en has transformed the stage of Deep Dish's small black-box theater into a room in a World Scenic designer Michael Allen beams covering its entirety and complete with knickknacks and details of all sorts War I-style bunker,with worn true to the time period. Beyond the main room was the packed dirt and branches of a trench tunnel,edible and'Iproperly set the tone as to o what the interior of the bunker that much res of the eeproductionlism of the set was incr ,, audience could expect from the depends on well-done realism to be successful, and D ast mlembers knew their characterst journey's nd is a play that p erformance. It was evident that the have delivered a more realistic or impressive p their erformances immensely more realistic. For example,Osborne(Eric Carl)clenched his inside and out, making each o f p us habit, and Stanhope Gus Allen) ran his palms repeatedly fists and ran his thumbs over his folded knuckles ns a nervo over his thighs when he felt stressed and noticeable actions allowed their characters to come that much demonstrlatedGhe us anguish The actors tiny, barely gui h and shame especially stood out in Friday's performance, as his facial exp ressions so accurately that Stanhope felt throughout the play.