There doesn’t seem to be a part that Steven Clark Pachosa can’t play. But this versatile actor gave the performance of a lifetime as Martin Gray, the celebrated architect who falls in love with a goat in Jobsite Theater’s version of Edward Albee’s The Goat: Or, Who Is Sylvia? Pachosa managed the part with the utmost seriousness; his Martin was so infatuated with his four-legged lover, he couldn’t bear to hear her disparaged as a dumb animal. Begging for his wife’s understanding, pleading for his best friend’s tolerance, Pachosa forced us to consider our own deepest beliefs about what is acceptable, what is forgivable. And he made this shocking, challenging play impossible to forget.
This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2006.