l-r Howard Rosenstein, Chrisopher Moore
(photo credit: Katie Leggitt)
Ringing It
A play about boxing not about boxing
by Gaëtan L. Charlebois
Cornered, by Jim Burke, is a conversation. Through this conversation we learn what we need to know about the two characters, the old hand Rex (played by Howard Rosenstein) and his sidekick Vinnie (Christopher Moore) - and about the place (a squalid neighbourhood boxing gym). We are meant to ebb and flow along with the gorgeously written dialogue, and tingle at the turns of phrase of the Mancounian (Manchester) accents. And played out over its 50 minutes, this might have emerged as a gem of a production.
