Posts Tagged ‘Jennifer Brawn Gittings’
The Thing Is, There’s No Kid in MOXIE’s Fair ‘Kid Thing’
Expectant lesbian parents share the joys, worries and conflicts their straight counterparts experience — and on either side of the ledger, the discussion begins and ends with the baby on the way. So why did Sarah Gubbins write ‘The Kid Thing,’ current MOXIE Theatre entry, about everything else?
Read MoreFormer La Jolla Resident Thinks Inside the Box
How do you manage to — uh — contain yourself amid the magic of theater and all it means? Former La Jolla resident Dominique Salerno found the solution. You write and perform your own show from a space no bigger than two breadboxes.
Read MoreFunny ‘Manifest Destinitis’ Needs a Dash Less Moliere
Audience and authorial tastes are changing all the time, and that’s why a Moliere adaptation (amid its originator’s bawdy humor) might not catch up in one fell swoop. Nonetheless, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Manifest Destinitis’ is a lot of fun as it looks at a core premise of 19th-century American expansionism.
Read MoreRep’s ‘Oldest Boy’ Has the Horses, but Sarah Ruhl Won’t Saddle Up
A cross-cultural marriage brings many angles with it, especially when the child is believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist master. Sarah Ruhl’s ‘The Oldest Boy,’ currently at San Diego Repertory Theatre, implies that the repercussions are staggering, but that’s as far as it goes.
Read MoreA Classical Tragedy Reinvented: Oedipus in the L.A. Barrio
Playwright Luis Alfaro has bravely taken the story of Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’ and reimagined it in contemporary Southern California’s Chicano culture. His Oedipus is born not in Thebes but in Los Angeles, and instead of coming of age in the royal household of Corinth, he learns his trade in Kern County’s California State Prison . . .
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