Theater review: ?Something Past in Front of the Light? at Catholic University

What does the Devil watch on TV? Reality shows, of course, chortling at the mayhem as foul-mouthed, amoral youngsters compete to be ?interesting.?

?It?s my fast food,? Satan grins in ?Something Past in Front of the Light,? a brave and breezy new play by Kathleen Akerley that gives us the Devil we know and ? more interestingly ? the Devil we don?t.

Of course Beelzebub giggles at the no-rules squalor on the tube. But did you know the poor fellow had a hard time growing up in the suburbs? He shows us his home movies, effectively staged by Akerley (who directed, with assistance from Michael Glenn) inside a big fake screen at the far end of the small Callan Theatre stage at Catholic University.

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