Expressing Extreme Wisdom Through Humor and Self-Mocking.
It is often said that, unlike Protestants, Jews and Catholics looooove jokes about themselves, the craziness of their culture, their religion, their semi-pagan rituals, their theology and their sense of “otherness”.
Fifty-two years after its Broadway debut, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee’s alcohol infused comic-drama about couple dynamics, is experiencing a revival. The 50th Anniversary Broadway revival in 2012 was very well received. Making that the fourth time it has been on Broadway. Locally the Seattle Rep is offering this diamond in the rough directed by Braden Abraham with R. Hamilton Wright as George, Pamela Reed as Martha, Aaron Blakely as Nick, and Amy Hill as Honey. Returning home from a faculty party at 2 AM, George is surprised to learn that Martha has invited guests over who will be arriving soon. Abraham makes sure that the ensuing three hours keeps us laughing and also on the edge of our seats.
SO much talent onstage, and yet I couldn’t stop thinking about how next door they were doing Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Ballard’s Ghost Light Originals offers up a provocative night of entertainment with its revision of Calderon de la Barca’s Life is a Dream, written during Spain’s Golden Age of Theatre in 1635. The play provides a multi-faceted story that explores the tensions between love and duty, the burdens of meeting one’s fate and the mystery of mankind’s perceptions of reality.
Chaos Theory, a quirky laugh-out-loud play about a woman in her mid twenties heartbroken from being left by her longtime
Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life was written as a stage production with no characters—only dialogue. It discusses a woman
Anything but Immediate
Mark, the evangelist, was one of 70 Disciples of Christ and the founder and later Bishop of the Church of Alexandria in Egypt. Twenty-five years after Jesus’ death in 30 AD, he wrote down, presumably in Greek, the oral stories and legends about His life, which we know today as the Gospel according to Mark. Since his Gospels were the first ones to be written down, they are considered the most direct, best-written, with a coherent plot and the most dramatic.
Soliloquy and emotion leave a lasting impression in Mia McCullough’s Impenetrable. Charles Waxberg directs the fractured, multi-perspectives as thoughts and feelings
