Rob Green plays filmmaker Burton in The Lab’s ‘Burn This’
On stage now at The Lab is Lanford Wilson’s Burn This. Reprising the role of Burton is Rob Green.
Each of the characters in Burn This is a fully-developed, highly flawed personality. In Will to Power, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche postulated that life is about overcoming flaws and adversity. He famously said in Twilight of the Idols, “What does not kill me makes me stronger.” But Burton lacks the courage to philosophize with a hammer. He lacks the will to power. He shrinks from the challenge of writing a screenplay that is authentic and meaningful out of fear that it might be a commercial flop. And he refuses to explore his 
sexual orientation in spite of experiences and feelings that demand such introspection. Burton is a creature of convention and that leads to his undoing – as a cutting-edge, avant garde filmmaker, in his relationship with Anna (played by Annette Trossbach), and in terms of his growth and development as a person.
Green gets all this and turns in an insightful and inspired performance in The Lab’s Burn This. Rob returns to the boards at The Lab after a nearly 3-year hiatus. He couldn’t be happier. Rob was last 
seen on Lab’s stage as Hal Robinson in The Graduate, as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman, and in other roles in Miss Witherspoon, Polish Joke, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Picasso at The Lapin Agile.
February 7, 2017.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.