Usually, when the centerpiece of a show involves a motel room where a full can of gas with a lighted candle stuck in the spout illuminates a floor littered with chopped-off hands, you'd think something interesting might be going on.
Ever since, he's been on the hunt for his displaced digits, placing ads offering a $500 reward for such information. But so far, he's only come up with jack-offs trying to nab the loot by passing off counterfeit amputated hands as Carmichael's, including a couple kids' hands. And he carries those hands with him, stuffed into a briefcase.
As a result, at this performance Hall was working with book in hand, which limited his ability to create a believable character. To his credit, Hall fashioned some agile line readings and kept the pace of the show moving, but the vaccuum where his full character should have been affected not just his performance but all the other actors and the piece as a whole.