Kanata Theatre’s Last Romance: Good actors coping with an inadequate script
The best reason for seeing Kanata Theatre’s production of the 201l play, Last Romance, is the performance of Brooke Keneford as a lonely widower who strikes up a friendship with a stranger in a dog park.
Keneford communicates a rough-hewn charm as Ralph Bellini, an opera-loving Italian American who’s desperate for companionship — and maybe, just maybe, a late-flowering romance. He’s gregarious yet vulnerable. His social skills are rusty — and, in an era obsessed with political correctness, his initial overtures to the aloof dog-walking Carol could be seen as sexual harassment. …