“Playwright Reed also directs, and he gets some nice work out of his actors. Howard Siegel delivers a subtly passionate performance as Simon Katzman, the guy who tracks Rudi down, and Anthony F. Ingram offers detailed and distinct portraits of two different pastors. Anna Hagan is effectively understated as Rudi’s wife, Netty, and Terence Kelly [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Refuge of Lies’
Talkbacks; or, “How do you learn all those lines?”
Often when I remind the cast that we have a talkback coming up, I am greeting with a groan. People begin questioning how many folks will stay and telling horror stories about that one talkback they did where there were more cast members than audience members. Soon they start placing bets on how quickly the [...]
Three to See :: April 2010
We’re already almost a week into April & I am in the midst of tech for Pacific Theatre‘s Refuge of Lies (which opens this Friday and you should definitely check out). All of the Ccultural Olympiad events are over now and April is a little bit slower as the city gears up for the spring/summer. Here are [...]
4 Projects. 1 Short Day.
Today was one of those days when every project I’m working up ganged up on me. Last night was closing for Hive 3. I did the math: in a week and a half we did 70 performances of House/Home. Three weeks ago the show didn’t exist and now it no longer exists, except as a [...]
2009 in Review: Work
Whenever I meet new people, one of the inevitable questions that comes up is “So, what do you do?” and whatever that piece of information is, it becomes one of that person’s defining characteristics. He’s a chef. She’s a banker. They are artists. Our work often defines us as people. In the past 12 months [...]