[Cwgrad-announcements] Fables Du Theatre (Brenda Varda's play) - GO: LA Weekly

[Brenda Varda]

Some of you have heard a bit about my mind bender piece, Fables du
Theatre
it’s the play I got the Humanities grant for this spring.  WELL IT”S
UP – and it’s as crazy as intended. 

 

We need bodies in seat this week
so if you buy tickets on line and select
“yucaipa” in the “where did you hear about us”  -  you will get a ½ price
ticket.  It will say $18 but you will only be charged $12.    If you want to
pay full price ($18) please feel free.

 

NEW REVIEW GO FABLES DU THEATRE The three tales in director Chris Covics'
imaginative if occasionally assaultive tour de force are just the top layer
of an unpredictable theatrical experience which veers between being
jaw-dropping creativity and brattiness. At the start of playwrights Brenda
Varda’s trio of one acts, the entire venue appears to be in a state of
chaotic ruin – an actor is laughing drunkenly and slobbering all over an
audience member, while other cast members, covered in blood, emerge from
behind the stage curtain. The ensemble, finally wrangled like cats into
their proper places, perform the vignettes: In "The Stage Coffeehouse," a
coffeehouse owner (Ramiq Sayer, flamboyantly channeling The Nutracker's
Drosselmyer) oversees the ill-fated romance between two of his patrons. In
"Xeera's Night," a succubus (a splendidly sultry Tulie Bouquess) genuinely
falls in love with her victim, with horrific results. The play's delicate
text is frequently interrupted by mishaps: Fired performers storm the stage,
and a rumpled, hirsute critic (not from this paper, thankfully) repeatedly
bawls out the cast from his seat. Covics' production shifts in tone from
scene to scene – one moment, a genuine homage to French-lite sentiment, as
in "The Little Prince"; the next, a playful spoof of theatrical
pretentiousness. The result's an unpredictable show that doesn't just blow
out the fourth wall, but hits the fifth and sixth walls as well. (PB)
Unknown Theater, 1110 N. Seward St., Hlywd.; Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 6
p.m.; thru Sept. 27. (323) 466-7781. An Unknown Theater and Immanence
Theatre Artists Co-Production.

 

 

I’m happy -  would love to see you there.

 

BV

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