"Give 'em an Inch and Song of Martina, both beautifully written and brightly directed by Jeff
Baron make up a delightful evening at Theatre Geo.
Give 'em an Inch is a comedy set in the waiting room of Dr. Daniels. A sign hanging on the wall
reads, "Institute for the Enhancement of Mankind." The good doctor is in the business of...
well... enlarging men 'down there'.
As each patient arrives for what he thinks is his personal 1:30 appointment, he finds that he is
part of a group that has to sit and face each other, knowing why they are all there. The dialogue
is hilarious as each painfully interacts with his fellows.
The group includes a nervous businessman (Barry Pearl), a blunt middle-aged nerd (Don
Amendolia), a gay athlete (Robert Lee Jacobs) who doesn't really have any 'shortcoming' but
is there because his lover (Vincent D'Elia) sent him, a studio executive's wife (Marsha
Waterbury) who went to negotiate the preliminaries for her much-too-important husband
(Michael McKenzie) who must have the biggest and best of everything to prove his success.
Perky nurse Allison (a delightful Hope Levy) keeps popping out from the office to offer explicit
information to the anxious men.
Cleverly hidden under the humor comes some real understanding of the tragedy of not 'sizing
up', and how most men equate penis size to success and happiness. It inconspicuously makes
the point, as with breast implants, that it's not what you have, but who you are that really
counts." - Dave DePino, Theatre in L.A.
the play: 55 minutes
the setting: a doctor's waiting room
the cast: 5 men, 2 women