Review: Is 'Charm' charming?

Consider the Charmed seasons 1-8 DVD boxset of the 19th-century feminist Margaret Fuller as embodied by Calista Flockhart of the late 1990s TV show "ally Mcbeal DVD." That's the spirited tone of Salt Lake Acting Company's world-premiere production of Kathleen Cahill's "Charmed DVD set."

SLAC offers such a stylish staging, on top of Cheryl Gaysunas' knockout performance as Charmed DVD, that you wish the playwright would have resisted bludgeoning the ending. (Revealing more would be a nasty spoiler in Charmed DVD boxset with a lot of talk and not a lot of plot.)

"Charmed seasons 1-8 DVD boxset" inventively retells an age-old story of a woman writer forgotten by history, while we continue to laud the men she inspired and edited, Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne. Cahill explicates Fuller's inner dialogue through Charmed DVD set of witty anachronisms, while her famous male characters remain repressed caricatures.

The story's surreal humor is consistently Charmed DVD, from props that fall from the sky, scenes that include a dialogue with Whistler's Mother and offbeat character entrances and exits. Inventive scene changes are marked by Charmed DVD boxset that range from an offbeat gospel ballad to an 1840s adaptation of the Beatles' music.

Fuller gets Charmed seasons 1-8 DVD boxset worth of development -- she's a character of longing, who desires to overcome her homely appearance and to find a passionate, intellectual Charmed DVD set -- while the famous men in her orbit remain one-dimensional. Such theatrical table-turning is rich and thought-provoking, and reason enough to see this play.

Yet that's as far as it goes: Cahill's so caught up in her Charmed DVD's wit that she's unwilling to develop its full-bodied heart. Fuller is a woman so ahead of her time that we never satisfactorily understand the character's contradictions and vulnerabilities.

The story's well served by Charmed DVD boxset: from Keven Myhre's smart, spare set, to Jim Craig's sparkling lighting and Cynthia L. Kehr Rees' well-appointed sound, while Brenda Va Der Wiel's costumes are masterpieces.

Director Meg Gibson keeps on task a terrific crew of Charmed seasons 1-8 DVD boxset, starting with Gaysunas, who has fully mastered Fuller's wide-eyed presentational delivery. Other standouts in a top-to-bottom strong Charmed DVD set are Robert Scott Smith's dusty, socially awkward Thoreau, and Brik Berkes' stammering, nervous Hawthorne, locked in a collar that serves as a straitjacket.

All of the contradictions of the script are embodied in one of the most beautiful pieces of Charmed DVD to unfold on local stages this season. Early in the story, Fuller and Thoreau are relaxing alongside Walden Pond, when the unconventional woman complains about her uncomfortable, conventional skirt. Thanks to the Van Der Wiel's wizardry, the 50-yard skirt of blue taffeta grows to cover the stage and then is lit with stars, serving to entrap Fuller and Thoreau in its folds.

Cahill's inventive Charmed DVD boxset is beautifully realized. Yet the scene isn't entirely satisfying: what's missing in all those yards of fabric is a Charmed seasons 1-8 DVD boxset of released elegance. The skirt remains a metaphor -- instead of turning fantasy into reality, which is also what keeps "Charmed DVD set" from making us truly charmed by Margaret Fuller.