CURTAIN CALL: A booze-soaked shitshow fueled by illicit drug use

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages.

0 comments

CURTAIN CALL: A booze-soaked shitshow fueled by illicit drug use

POSTED: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 3:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Theater

Could it be that the Great Recession suddenly cast author John Steinbeck into a new light? The American author’s leftist didacticism was once the bane of many a teenager, but the current socioeconomic climate makes for ripe times to reconsider the scribe as a sympathetic voice for the Occupy-minded.

People’s Light & Theatre offers one opportunity to re-examine the Californian populist’s oeuvre with a stage production of the famous novella, Of Mice and Men. Company members Peter Pryor and Ian Bedford play George and Lennie, two migrant farm workers looking for a better future in Depression-era California. David Bradley, who helms the production, spent five days in California’s fecund Salinas Valley to better capture the combination of powerlessness and promise that still pervades the region. As a result, expect PLT’s production (which opens Wednesday) to strike a chord with proud 99 percenters.

Feb. 15 to Mar. 25, $25-45, People’s Light & Theatre, 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, 610-644-3500, peopleslight.org.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Posted by Michael Gold @ 3:00 PM Permalink | Post a comment

0 comments

Comments (0)

Q&A with SHARI SOLANIS: "The goal isn't pornography"
PHILLY LOVE NOTES: An ode to Spruce Street
ICE CUBE: In Memoriam: Joe Tartaglia
What we're trying to do this weekend
SEXY TIME Q&A: I've never had an orgasm during sex with a man — and I'm 30!
Coming soon to Philly: Two cockamamie movie promotion schemes
Q&A with Tony Goldwyn: "Life is gray, and relationships are, too"
CONCERT REVIEW & PHOTOS: James Blake @ TLA 5/11
CONCERT REVIEW: Primus (3D & quadraphonic sound) @ The Tower 10/17
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: The Archbishop meets the Geator, the Mayor goes suit shopping, Le Bec Fin fin.

About this blog

Featuring everything from event roundups to concert reviews and sex talk, City Paper's Critical Mass is a space for off-the-wall coverage of Philly's A&E scene.

Follow Critical Mass editors Patrick Rapa and Emily Guendelsberger on Twitter:

@mission2denmark | @emilygee

Search this blog:

Topics:

Blog archives:

May
April
March

February
January

Past Archives: