Playwright Lee Blessing’s great strength is taking the kind of juicy contemporary theme beloved of TV movies, and then exploring that topic far beyond what television could ever stomach. In his provocative one-act, “Down the Road,” Blessing follows a husband-and-wife team of biographers (Julie Eudeikis and John Farrimond) as they interview a grisly serial killer (Chuck Quinn) for a lucrative but bloody tell-all. Vincent P. Mahler’s simple but well-staged Frump Tucker Theatre Company production at Angel Island serves the play’s themes with considerable understanding. Although all three actors are solid, Eudeikis is particularly vulnerable and intelligent as a writer struggling to reconcile communal morality, money and personal distaste. Call 312-409-2689.
