Body of Work

SOLO ACTOR SHINES IN HARVEY MILK
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Sept. 12, 2004, Brandon Griggs; The Salt Lake Tribune

In a one-person play, the actor makes or breaks the production. An ensemble cast can overcome a few weak links, but a solo play rises or falls on the strength of its actor's performance.

How fortunate, then, that Plan-B Theatre Company's compelling A Letter to Harvey Milk has Yaron Schweizer. The actor not only developed the play from Leslea Newman's short story, he has performed it off and on for four years. On stage, he virtually becomes Harry Weinberg... he imbues the likable Harry with tenderness, humor, wisdom and compassion.

Harvey Milk offers poignant lessons about prejudice, sexuality, aging and the human need to connect. It also draws provocative parallels between the persecution of World War II Jews and 1970s-era homosexuals. This almost-too-fleeting play is not really about Harvey Milk or Harry Weinberg; it's an exploration of the humanity in all of us.