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Justin Hayford John Michael’s Dementia Me, at the Den Credit: Paul Clarkĭementia Me A solo show can live or die by the energy of its performer.

As Eveleigh, British import Simon Slater, star of Bloodshot‘s original 2011 London production, gives a precise, detailed, impassioned performance, but by the time he’s played ukulele, saxophone, and done magic tricks-all before intermission-the evening feels more showcase than show.

Douglas Post’s one-man noir is tightly constructed, well written, and calcified, so dependent on the well-worn conventions of midcentury crime dramas it may as well be an unproduced episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. He bites, falls for his subject-who ends up dead-and suddenly he’s eyeballs deep in finding her killer. Dan Jakes Simon Slater in Bloodshot, at Greenhouse Theater Center Credit: Courtesy Carol Fox & Associatesīloodshot Derek Eveleigh, hard-drinking former crime scene photographer, is washed up until an envelope arrives in the mail containing money and instructions: trail and photograph a particular woman, and expect more money. Using “From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man” as a framing device, a cast of four women bob between goofy vignettes like “A Work of Art” and richer, more nuanced romantic pieces like “A Joke.” Director Dawn Arnold’s reverence and affinity for the source material is clear, but the format-sort of a performance, sort of a staged reading-robs viewers of the stories’ intimacy without doing much to heighten their power. The Anton Chekhov Book Club Returns Moving Dock follows up last year’s compilation of Chekhov’s short stories with this new set of seven.