OCPA Presents New Plays in Lake Forest
By: Julie Musbach
The Orange County Playwrights Alliance concludes its 2017 season of new theatre with staged readings of four new one-act plays from dramatists who have been produced locally and across the U.S., featuring skilled actors from across the Southland. Women figure prominently in all four plays.
The Edge of Wilderness by Andrea Sloan Pink - In a forlorn hotel bar in Costa Rica, a comparative lit professor who lives a comfortable life meets an Italian filmmaker who looks at life from a certain lens: "If it's not adventure, it's false." After encounters with him and a local transgendered man, she looks at art and life anew. Directed by Angela Cruz. The Countess Tolstoy by Arthur Kraft - In 1891, Leo Tolstoy's wife Sonya persuades the Tsar of Russia to allow Tolstoy's latest story to be widely published, even though it has upset officials of both church and state. Returning home victorious, she is stunned by Tolstoy's condemnation of her efforts - and of her. Directed by Philip Brickey.www.ocplaywrights.org
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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The Totally Awesome Prom: The ’80s Night to Remember Torrance Cultural Arts Center (5/01-5/01) |