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First Look opens with Tom Stoppard’s seminal play, Travesties, on Friday, July 31st at 7:30 p.m. Set in Zürich, Switzerland during World War I, Travesties follows three important 20th-century personalities living in Zürich at that time: the modernist author James Joyce, the communist revolutionary Lenin, and the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara. The less notable English official Henry Carr recalls his perceptions and his experiences with these influential figures. As he reminisces, Carr's now geriatric memory becomes prone to distraction, and instead of predictable historical biography, these characters are interpreted through the maze of his mind. Carr's memories are couched in a Zürich production of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest in which he had a starring role. Stoppard uses this production and Carr's mixed feelings surrounding it as a framework to explore art, the war and revolution
Frankenstein, Prometheus Bound, by Jeffrey T. Heyer on August 1st at 7:30 p.m. - Starving wanderer Victor Frankenstein strives to win the assistance of early nineteenth century Arctic explorer Robert Walton by revealing an incredible scientific achievement and its disastrous consequences. Delirious, Victor’s desperate narration blends with fever visions, nightmarishly telescoping time and space. The Actors Collective presents a reading of a new adaptation adhering closely to teen-aged Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original, peculiar, immortal novel. Written by Jeffrey Heyer.
Whitman Sampler by Patrice Parks, on Friday, August 7th at 7:30 p.m. Whitman's Sampler" is a contemporary dark holiday comedy. Brother and sister, Dillon and Constance Klint, travel to Kalispell, Montana for a long-time-in-coming Christmas family get-together. Their parents, Del and Addie, are getting older and it is time the siblings heal old wounds and reconcile their respective roles in the family dynamic. Needless to say, nothing goes as planned and comfortable family roles are upended by shifting family loyalties, witchcraft, and a missing box of chocolates.
Philos by David Beech, on Saturday, August 8th at 3 p.m. Philos explores the puzzling contrast between Charles Darwin’s life on the Beagle expedition and his immobility thereafter as a chronic invalid; his personal relationships with his wife and children, and with Fitzroy, Hooker, Wallace and Huxley; and the strangeness of his theory of evolution, still widely misunderstood. A novel angle is the implication that problems with Darwin’s love life had much to do with his illness, as exposed in a couple of flirtatious dream sequences.
Brooklyn 1961 by Jane Press at 7:30 p.m. on August 8th. The time is 1961; the place, Brooklyn, New York. Eleven year old Jefdi Steiner, on a sleepover at her Grandma Ida's house, learns about life, her family and "The moral of the story". The following day, she's "In on the action!" as she helps set up & serve at the Maj Jong game with Ida, Bea, Seal, Pauline & Rozzie.
The Jesus Hickey by Luke Yankee on Sunday, August 9th at 2 p.m. The Jesus Hickey, an outrageous comedy about celebrity filtered through the lens of religous fanaticism. It is the winner of the TRU Voices Award for 2007, as well as the first annual Joel and Phyllis Erlich Award, given "for a socially relevant new work of theater." The Jesus Hickey recently received a staged reading in New York at the Players Theatre starring Tony Award nominees, Matthew Arkin and Merle Louise.
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, 4th and Guadalupe, Carmel.
$8.00 donation suggested for each performance. For information call .624-7491. |
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