‘The Journals of Adam and Eve’ Review: Hal Linden and Sally Struthers Go East of Eden (and Studio City) in a Charming Stage Two-Hander
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There’s no IP more innately suited for adaptation as a pure two-hander than the tale of Adam and Eve, a story in which, initially at least, there are no other characters, excepting the creator of the universe, who quickly gets relegated to a supporting role in the wake of more fleshed-out human leads.
Legendary television scenarist Ed. Weinberger (the creator of “Taxi” and “The Cosby Show,” and a “Mary Tyler Moore Show” writing stalwart) has finally done the obvious and turned it into a two-person play in the style of “Love Letters,” read aloud from scripts, like A.R.
Gurney’s highly portable, bare-bones model. Weinberger’s take on the world’s favorite creation myth, “The Journals of Adam and Eve,” premiered over the weekend with a very limited run at L.A.’s 110-seat Garry Marshall Theatre, where a total of six audiences saw that it was… good. (Apologies to the God of Genesis, still the tersest critic ever.) How good?
That might be a little tricky to exactly figure out, or at least take another production with a different cast to judge. Because it’s nearly impossible to separate how much of the warm glow being cast across the street from the Bob’s Big Boy neon was due to Weinberger’s wry script, and how much of it was due to the two other sitcom legends executing it, Hal Linden and Sally Struthers.
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