The quest to create the perfect sandwich takes on existential tones in Clyde’s, the tasty if occasionally and slightly undercooked new dramedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage…
Even before the first bolt of flame erupts when a particularly devilish character tosses her cigarette to the floor, we suspect the menu at Clyde’s offers a heaping helping of magic realism to spice up that realistic kitchen set. Well, almost realistic: Set designer Takeshi Kata frames everything within a skewed, neon blue Googie Architecture proscenium that immediately suggests some sort of platonic diner ideal.
Clyde will have none of it, desperate as she is to stick with the cheese-on-white and tuna melts that make the bucks needed to pay off what may or may not be some serious gambling debts.If Clyde’s manner with the elder Montrellous is abrupt, her treatment of the lesser kitchen staff is downright demonic.
Clyde, if you haven’t guessed by now, just might be the devil’s stand-in reigning over this purgatory, capable of raising hellfire and terrorizing her minions on the daily.
All in all, they’re a fairly easy bunch to forgive, and while that might well be a creative choice on Nottage’s part – perhaps she’s suggesting that everyone has his or her reasons for crossing whatever lines they cross – it can also feel a overly sentimental and woo-woo. Perhaps that’s why Clyde, played to a deliciously evil fare-thee-well by Aduba, is pitched at such an outlandish extreme: She’s the cayenne that keeps this recipe from overdosing on sugar.
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