Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: December 13, 2002 Miniature lighted metal sculptures twinkle and glide across the stage. Each will make a return appearance later, larger-than-life. The curtain rises to reveal an eye-popping splash of modern art and a giant, chartreuse-clad barker who draws us in, singing the haunting anthem of the evening, "Misery's the river of the world… everybody row." The carnival has begun. Robert Wilson is on Read More →
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times December 12, 2002 'Tis the season… to get Scrooged. Come on, you can get it up for Ebenezer one more time. The San Diego Rep is still doing it -- after 27 years! Anyway, what would the holidays be without a couple of "Nutcrackers" and "A Christmas Carol?" Scrooge has had a wild ride at the Rep. For Read More →
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times December 07, 2002 Deadheads and midgets and chains, oh my! Sounds like Saturday night in Hillcrest. But no, it's Jacob Marley… he's baaaaack, dragging all his baggage with him (isn't everyone??) Dickens created the firm of Scrooge and Marley in 1843. Now, here comes Chicago actor/playwright Tom Mula, to revive and revisit the penny-pinching pair so Marley can tell Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 06, 2002 Marley, as we all know, was as dead as a doornail. Dickens first established that fact in 1843. and now, here comes Chicago actor/playwright Tom Mula, reviving old Marley so he can tell his side of the story. In "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol," which premiered in 1998, the old boy is, as Dickens put it, "dead to begin with." But just Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 29, 2002 Splashes of light transform the painted backdrop from desert sand to cloudy sky. The only prop is a suspended swing. This is story-telling the way it began: one person, many voices and characters. Pamela Gien is a modern-day griot, a folk historian. She has the stage all to herself, but she crowds it with a cast of 24 colorful Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 22, 2002 Everyone knows it's a four-letter word. Love, that is. Sometimes painful, brutal, damaging, heartbreaking. Well, that seems to be the opinion of British playwright Patrick Marber, whose 1997 play, "Closer," won the Olivier Award and a Tony nomination. The title is ironic; these four singles are terrified of getting closer; they push each other away at every opportunity. In "The Only Game Read More →
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