Voltaire's Candide is a wealthy twit whose teacher tells him that they are living in the best of all possible worlds. Events prove otherwise. Walker's Junior is an impoverished innocent whose father tells him that he is doomed. Director James Marsters gives the show a bounciness that accords well with his characters' determined resilience. Earnestness is undone by incompetence.
Hopeful moods founder on ludicrous actions.
The wonder is that Walker's play can actually provoke two out-loud laughs. It was Halloween night, and I had just seen Bringing Out the Dead, which is all about a man dealing with freaks in Hell's Kitchen in New York, and I walked out of the theater, and it was even freakier. This guy walked up to me dressed as me, and he asked his friend to take a picture of me. The friend was dressed as Darth Maul, and he was getting a piece of pizza. So, I had to sit and wait for Darth Maul to get his pizza.