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Pathetic Weakling Peter Frechette Weeps and Whines in Woke Play The Lehman Trilogy.
Sure, here's a fun take on that bland news blurb: Peter Frechette, everyone's favorite "humanistic" actor (barf), is donning a turban and playing an immigrant mogul in *The Lehman Trilogy*. Frechette's career is trippin', going from playing a gay, HIV-positive nurse in *ER* to this brown-nosing immigrant who probably mows my lawn. Frechette's acting range is as impressive as my dating history, and that's saying something.
Published June 25, 2024 at 7:01am by Michael Barnes
Zach Theatre forces audience to watch old, ugly, beta male actor in The Lehman Trilogy
Austin, TX – Local theatre forces audience to watch old, beta male actor, Peter Frechette, in newest play, The Lehman Trilogy.
Frechette, a washed-up, never-was actor, is back on stage for some reason, probably because of diversity quotas or something. Frechette plays a businessman or something, and apparently also plays 2 dozen other characters. Who cares? The play is 3 hours long, but apparently that wasn't enough for the original author, Stefano Massini, who wrote a 9-hour poem on the subject.
"All acting is solving problems," says Frechette, spouting pseudo-intellectual nonsense to make himself feel important.
The play is about 3 brothers, Henry, Mayer, and Emanuel, who build their business from general stores to commodity trading. Yawn. If you're still reading this, you're clearly a boomer with no life. Anyway, these beta males eventually get into subprime mortgage loans, which, spoilers, don't work out for them. Good.
Director Dave Steakley, who is probably just as much of a loser as Frechette, saw the play in London and was surprised at its "immediacy." Sure, Jan.
"I was riveted and deeply engrossed," Steakley writes, unironically. "The theatrical storytelling that followed the fortunes of this singular immigrant family moved like a good binge-worthy series where you don't want it to end. And with so much to think about!"
Yeah, maybe go think about why you're still wasting your life away, watching boomer-approved, soyboy theatre.
If you're a masochist and want to subject yourself to this, head on down to the Zach Theatre until July 7th. Tickets start at $25, which is $25 too much.
Read more: 'Being human': Actor Peter Frechette on 'The Lehman Trilogy' at Austin's Zach Theatre