Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 3, 1998 In one particularly inspired scene in “Culture Clash in Bordertown,” a woman enters dressed in nightclothes, lies down and covers herself with the Mexican flag. A pajama-clad, blonde-haired man sprawls out a little distance away, under an American flag. Soon, he gets up, strides over to the woman, and screws her brains out. ‘Why are Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 31, 1995 It’s catch-up time. Notable productions have been piling up, and you only have this weekend to catch most of them. And the best part is, they’re all notable for very strong acting. In the historical drama division, there’s “The Miracle Worker” at Lamb’s Players Theatre and “Terra Nova” at North Coast Rep. “The Miracle Worker,” you may remember, is William Gibson’s inspiring story of Anne Sullivan, the visually-impaired teacher who takes Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 17, 1995 Actor-writer-director-doctor Jonathan Miller, when he was in San Diego a few years ago, talked about how Shakespeare productions are so different in England, because there, Shakespeare is bred in the bone. It’s the same with Chekhov and the Russians. This week, for an all too brief run, San Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 3, 1995 Shakespeare is rolling in his grave. Most likely, with laughter. On the week of the Bard’s 431st birthday, the San Diego Repertory Theatre opened “Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet,” a clever, satirical, sly, farcical Shakespearean comedy, if there ever was one. All the elements are there: Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 26, 1995 Theater is a not always what it seems. Sometimes, you gear up for a certain kind of evening; you’re expecting a silly little fluff-piece or a radical feminist lesbian screed, and whammo! Whaddaya know, it’s not what you anticipated. I love surprises, especially in the theater. So, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 19, 1995 There’s time and there’s no time. Temporal play and word-play abound in two very different theatrical ventures: Alan Ayckbourn’s “Time of My Life” at the Old Globe, and Eric Ehn’s “No Time Like the Present” at Sledgehammer Theatre. Each production has a malleable sense of chronology, boomeranging between past and present, posing uncomfortable questions Read More →
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-Pat Launer