From the1992 Salt Lake Acting Company production of GOD'S COUNTRY.
Mark Mineart as The Skinhead, Kurt Johnson as Actor.
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"...Director Rick Van Noy stages the play in a crisp, vivid manner that grabs your attention immediately and never lets it slip, while the cast is so consistently strong that it almost seems unfair to single out any individual performer. Nevertheless, mention must be made of Mark Mineart's stunning performance as Order founder Robert Jay Matthews. Looking like Tom Cruise gone to hell and sounding like a verbal fist, he projects a genuinely frightening mixture of charisma, rage, and totally focused fanatacism. In the minor role of a skinhead, he seems so nearly out-of-control that you'll feel safer if you don't sit in the front rows.
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"...Most riviting of all is the point of violence that all these musings based in fear and loss eventually sharpen to. When a skinhead(Mark Mineart) comes barreling in, his mouth foaming in anger, his huge angular body towering above the front row, the audience grows limp with fear. He's there in his retro-punk choreography to pound together a crude cross and crucify an already bleeding "traitor" to the cause. Which he does right before us."
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