Women's Wear Daily
Performance: Unknown
22-Oct-82

"Greater Tuna" is the phrase a pair of corny radio newscasters in the tiny town of Tuna, Texas, use to describe the broadcasting area they serve. In this delightful evocation of small town life, at Circle-in-the-Square Downtown. Joe Sears and Jaston Williams play 20 characters in a town in which the local dogcatcher is one of the community's most interesting citizens. Many of these characters are familiar Southern stereotypes, some of whom the actors invest with a dignity and feeling that goes well beyond caricature. There is a marginal plot running through these skillfully written vignettes and if one has a complaint it is that too often the same notes - lampooning self-righteousness and bigotry - are sounded. Sears and Williams are really so sophisticated - Sears is uncannily good as a tough, elderly matron - one who wishes the material went deeper.

Kevin Rupnick has designed a poetic backdrop for the proceedings, and Linda Fisher's costumes add mightily to the humor.