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WBUR feature: Does Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s ‘Let the Right One In’ have the right stuff at BU?

Leah Hohauser as Eli in Actors' Shakespeare Project's "Let the Right One In" at the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre.

Leah Hohauser as Eli in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Let the Right One In” at the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre. (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios)

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Does Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s ‘Let the Right One In’ have the right stuff at BU?

October 28, 2022
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This review of BU’s Let the Right One In was first published in WBUR on October 26, 2022. By Jacquinn Sinclair | Photos courtesy of Nile Scott Studios

Excerpt

There’s a murderer in town.

An older man, Hakan, is quietly gassing and killing people in the area. Once he takes their lives, he drains them of their blood. Hakan (Richard Snee) will do anything to keep Eli alive. But Eli’s constant need for blood and Hakan’s murderous mishaps keep them on the run. Soon, the two end up in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, to rent an apartment and start anew.

In Blackeberg, an unlikely friendship forms between a bullied boy, Oskar, and Eli that changes both of their lives forever.

This budding camaraderie is at the core of Jack Thorne’s “Let the Right One In,” produced by Actors’ Shakespeare Project in collaboration with the Boston University School of Theatre. The production runs through Nov. 6 at BU’s Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre. The story comes from the internationally best-selling novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist that was turned into two films (a Swedish and an American version) and adapted for the stage by Thorne. The production is directed by Christopher V. Edwards, ASP’s artistic director and several BU students help round out the cast and crew.

The play, like the film takes the time to establish that there’s something sinister happening in town and why Oskar (Mishka Yarovoy) is in dire need of Eli’s (Leah Hohauser) friendship. This stage version, though, gets off to a slower start despite a strong, athletic performance by Hohauser, one of the BU actors.

The Booth Theatre is an ample open space with a thrust stage, where seating surrounds the ground floor stage on three sides. There’s no set to speak of, but tall silverish pipes or cylinders soar from the ground to the ceiling and a metal playground structure rests in the background.

Leah Hohauser as Eli and Mishka Yarovoy as Oskar in Actors' Shakespeare Project's "Let the Right One In."

Leah Hohauser as Eli and Mishka Yarovoy as Oskar in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Let the Right One In.” (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios)

The cast continuously rolls in props, furniture, and other set design elements throughout the show to move the action from the school to the courtyard at Oskar and Eli’s apartment complex to a candy store and more.

Yarovoy who starred in SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “The Inheritance,” is a lovely Oskar. With his gentle speech, Yarovoy seems to physically fold inward when surrounded by school bullies who taunt him, call him piggy and prod him to squeal. His meekness alone might be the reason he’s teased, and he’s often cornered by two or more hooligans who love to give him a hard time. But the uber-upbeat physical education teacher, Mr. Avila portrayed by the talented Dennis Trainor, Jr., who also starred in “The Inheritance,” is kind to Oskar.

Their otherness brings Oskar and Eli closer together despite Eli’s initial declaration that they can’t be friends. Oskar is friendless and Eli, a vampire, doesn’t go to school, can’t come out in the sun and smells like decay when hungry for blood. Over time, the two grow closer. In the book and film, Oskar is 12 years old, and Eli is physically 12 years old but has been alive for a very long time.

read wbur’s full review

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