ACT SF Caryl Churchill, "Love and Information": Strand Theater
Caryl Churchill's play is a very clever production. It addresses in 75 dialogues the impasse in human communication due to or in part because of digital communication, but not only this...the difference in languages in life styles in values in vocabulary and so on...it starts with a man and wife in bed, and he cannot sleep and finally he gets up and says, "I think I will go on facebook"...as though that is a solution for what he needs or wants to communicate. Another provocative meeting is between a homeless drug addicted population which is found by the BART station outside this theater, and it shows how that "crazy" conversation spins off another conversation and causes us to reevaluate it.
I had a special discount seat for $40 in the very last row, of the balcony, center, with no one on either side of me for three seats each direction and had a perfect view! The newly opened and restored Strand on Market, right across from Civic Center and the UN Plaza is a small theater, but built in a contemporary style, with retention of the architectural elements, but the walls have been painted a cherry red. There is a nice contemporary cafe at the door, when one enters on the main floor. The Strand has just opened, and corresponds to the publishing of Carey Perloff', Artistic Director for ACT, 's Memoir by City Lights Books. BEAUTIFUL CHAOS is the title, and I heard her read three selected chapters at the Mechanics Institute, learning that she first met Harold Pinter in London, when she was there on her fulbright. She brought him to SF...for one of her first productions, when she became the youngest director and the only woman artistic director in the country.
I had a special discount seat for $40 in the very last row, of the balcony, center, with no one on either side of me for three seats each direction and had a perfect view! The newly opened and restored Strand on Market, right across from Civic Center and the UN Plaza is a small theater, but built in a contemporary style, with retention of the architectural elements, but the walls have been painted a cherry red. There is a nice contemporary cafe at the door, when one enters on the main floor. The Strand has just opened, and corresponds to the publishing of Carey Perloff', Artistic Director for ACT, 's Memoir by City Lights Books. BEAUTIFUL CHAOS is the title, and I heard her read three selected chapters at the Mechanics Institute, learning that she first met Harold Pinter in London, when she was there on her fulbright. She brought him to SF...for one of her first productions, when she became the youngest director and the only woman artistic director in the country.
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