McCartney Times

The story of Mark David Chapman, the murderer of John Lennon, has been told many times, in books, movies, news specials, and television documentaries, since he fired those shots outside the Dakota in 1980. Ross Howard’s new play Two of Us delves deep into the Chapman’s disturbed mind and explores the dynamic of his relationship with his wife during the two years or so leading up to the assassination.As Howard tells it in this well-acted production from the New Light Theater Project, two main forces acted on Chapman (Chris Bert, in a dynamically jittery performance) as he spiraled downward into obsession and murder. One was the evangelical Christianity he shared with his wife Gloria (a sharply focused, emotionally powerful performance by Vivian Chiu), the travel agent he married in 1979. Chapman’s anxieties and perceptions of unfairness and betrayal grated against the sureties of the faith, but his wife clung ever more desperately to religion as Chapman became more and more irrational.

Source: Theater Review (NYC): ‘Two of Us’ by Ross Howard Explores Mark David Chapman’s Murder of John Lennon | Blogcritics