L.A. Times
September 25, 1992
Reprinted without permission

STAGE BEAT

'Streams': Sketches With Some Good Lines

Urban anxiety, scattered over a wider landscape, is also dramatized in
"Streams of Consciousness" at the Met Theatre. 

Written and directed by Michael T. Weiss, the show spotlights eight solo
characters talking to a person we can't see, about such subjects as video
dating, thinness as a state of happiness and a wife's yearning to be
glamorous. 

In its present form, "Streams" is a collection of loosely intertwined
sketches looking for a structure -- a regular play wouldn't be bad -- in
order to hit home as something more than a stack of auditions. 

But Weiss writes good lines -- even, sometimes, in those frequent moments
when he's engaged in the dubious artifice of rhymed couplets. 

Among the "streams" that brightly burble are Eddie DeHarp's stinging
rendition of a dedicated actor brushed off at an audition, Stacey Katzin's
depiction of a character desperate to lose weight and Lee Mathis'
philosophical construction worker high on a roof beam pondering
metaphysics. Narrow pools of light moodily enhance the performances. 

 * "Streams of Consciousness," Met Theatre, 1098 N. Oxford Ave., Los
Angeles. Fridays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Ends Oct. 10. $5-$7:50.  (660) 8587.
Running time: 1 hour, 10 minutes.