Gift Theater tries, but 'Hell' is tough to fit in a storefront
With a cast of 22 actors crammed into the minuscule Gift Theatre, Sheldon Patinkin's production of Rodney Ackland's loquacious but fascinating play, "Absolute Hell," three hours and 15 minutes of mostly plot-free bohemian behavior in post-war London, is so ambitiously audacious that you find yourself gunning for it to succeed. Alas, it does not entirely work in these circumstances and, it must be said, there are many…