BWW Reviews: THE BIG A: SCENES FROM A VANISHING LANDSCAPE Gives Perspective at Capital Fringe
Robert Epstein, the writer and director of The Big A, based the show on his family's own experiences. As a long-time New York and DC actor, acting teacher and Macomb Theater Company founder, Epstein felt that, instead of lecturing about the experience of Alzheimer's/dementia, he wanted to take the audience inside the reality; showing us the effects of the disease from varying perspectives within a theatrical context. We are invited inside the mind of the aging parent as he/she tries to make sense of the chaos that seems to be everywhere, and the struggle to communicate the terror and loneliness that wells up. And then we are back on the other side of that fear, with the frustrated and hurting son, feeling, I daresay, a gread deal more empathy for both sides.
Fairfield University Announces Free Irish Film Series This Fall
"The Irish in Film," the free movie series sponsored by the Irish Studies Program at Fairfield University, opens on Wednesday, October 3, with the first of four diverse films. The series, now in its fifth year, is part of Fairfield University's Arts & Minds season of cultural and intellectual programs.
The Outfest Legacy Project Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary
The Outfest Legacy Project, a collaboration between the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest, is proud to announce its 5th Anniversary. "The Outfest Legacy Project is the only program in the world dedicated to saving and protecting LGBT moving images and in just five short years, we have made great strides in addressing the growing crisis of LGBT films and moving image media that are threatened by deterioration and neglect," said Kirsten Schaffer, Executive Director of Outfest.
