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ATP playRites 2011
Feb. 15th, 2011 02:55 pmThe ATP playRites Festival started this weekend and I managed to see the premiere of three of the plays for free (thank you ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
othelianna for having a life in the theatre).
playRites, for those of you who don't know, is Alberta Theatre Projects' festival of new Canadian plays. It's in its 25th year and seems to be going quite well. They certainly can afford a high class of hors d'oeuvres at their premiere's at least.
The Romeo Initiative is a tale of Cold War romance - or rather, about pretended cold war romance. East German spies seducing West German secretaries to obtain state secrets. Act 1 was kind of slow and you might not know what's going on without knowing the play's synopsis, but the second act is really good.
Nisei Blue was the best of the three plays, since it seemed to have a solid narrative. The problem is that they seemed to have forgotten a key element in the play, and the play would hold together a lot better with it then without it. I only know about it becauseothelianna saw them rehearsing earlier versions of the play.
The play is about a young Vancouver police detective investigating strange happenings in "Japantown" in the months prior to WWII, and finding star-crossed love instead. It comes to a nasty (but really well acted) end.
Heartbreak is about crazy people, questionable psychotherapy techniques, and psychotic breaks. It's a comedy. It had the same actors as The Romeo Initiative, but they were much better here.
playRites is on until March 6th.
othelianna for having a life in the theatre).playRites, for those of you who don't know, is Alberta Theatre Projects' festival of new Canadian plays. It's in its 25th year and seems to be going quite well. They certainly can afford a high class of hors d'oeuvres at their premiere's at least.
The Romeo Initiative is a tale of Cold War romance - or rather, about pretended cold war romance. East German spies seducing West German secretaries to obtain state secrets. Act 1 was kind of slow and you might not know what's going on without knowing the play's synopsis, but the second act is really good.
Nisei Blue was the best of the three plays, since it seemed to have a solid narrative. The problem is that they seemed to have forgotten a key element in the play, and the play would hold together a lot better with it then without it. I only know about it because
othelianna saw them rehearsing earlier versions of the play.The play is about a young Vancouver police detective investigating strange happenings in "Japantown" in the months prior to WWII, and finding star-crossed love instead. It comes to a nasty (but really well acted) end.
Heartbreak is about crazy people, questionable psychotherapy techniques, and psychotic breaks. It's a comedy. It had the same actors as The Romeo Initiative, but they were much better here.
playRites is on until March 6th.
