London Frontier Theatre performs Dorothy Parker Comedy
as Valentine Season Treat
<a href=http://www.londonfrontiertheatre.com><img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/lftc_vert.gif border=1 align=right alt="Join us for a Valentine's Love Fest!"></a>Magdalena, NM – “Razors pain you, Rivers are damp; Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp; Guns aren’t lawful, Nooses give; Gas smells awful – You might as well live!”
London Frontier Theatre Company presents its Dorothy Parker tribute in a hilarious, bittersweet look at Love for Valentine’s season.
From “A General Review of the Sex Situation”, through the bittersweet “A Dream Lies Dead”, and on to “Resume” (above), Parker’s poems are presented not as recited poetry but as conversations exchanged at a sophisticated social gathering – transposed from Parker’s New York of the’ ‘20’s/’30’s to the “Santa Fe scene.”. Mood – and partners – change constantly in a kaleidoscope of variations on the game of love, the desperate silliness we all have known in its pursuit, and the unexpected healing of its fractures, as with the woman who chances to meet her last-year’s grand passion and now can only muse, “I thought that he was tall.”
The stories are performed in fast-paced, self-narrative style, combining theatrical action and characters with tongue-in-cheek story-telling, and reveal yearnings unsettlingly like our own. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), critic, playwright, author of several volumes of poems, has been called “one of the wittiest people in the world, and one of the saddest.”
We’re all familiar with “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses”, and perhaps with some of her other pithy comments: “One more drink and I’ll be under the host”, or – reviewing a play – “Katherine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
Parker’s stories and poems cover a much wider range, presenting the beauty and heartache of life and love and then ambushing us with wit, irony, and devastating characterization – a blend of acid humour and pathos that lingers like the taste of green apples: sweet-sour and unforgettable.
Actors in You Might As Well Live! are Jack Fairweather, Ruth Ryan, Donna Todd, and Kathleen White, all of Magdalena. Rita Broaddus, also of Magdalena, handles lighting and sound. Adaptation of Parker’s work is by Todd, as is play direction.
Make an (after-) Valentine date to join us for a spirit-lifting evening/afternoon entertainment. Performances are Friday, Feb. 15 and Saturday, Feb. 16, both at 7 pm, with a matinee on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 2 pm and again on Saturday, Feb. 23, 7 pm, and Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 pm, at Magdalena’s historic WPA Theatre, Main at Fourth. Tickets are $3.50 for adults, $2.00 for children, and are available at the door one hour prior to performance, and by Reservation at (575) 854-2519 or londonfrontier@gilanet.com (londonfrontier@gilanet.com).
This project is funded in part by the Kerr Foundation of Oklahoma, the McCune Foundation of Santa Fe, Socorro Electric Cooperative, & LFTC’s “Friends of the Theatre.”
as Valentine Season Treat
<a href=http://www.londonfrontiertheatre.com><img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/lftc_vert.gif border=1 align=right alt="Join us for a Valentine's Love Fest!"></a>Magdalena, NM – “Razors pain you, Rivers are damp; Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp; Guns aren’t lawful, Nooses give; Gas smells awful – You might as well live!”
London Frontier Theatre Company presents its Dorothy Parker tribute in a hilarious, bittersweet look at Love for Valentine’s season.
From “A General Review of the Sex Situation”, through the bittersweet “A Dream Lies Dead”, and on to “Resume” (above), Parker’s poems are presented not as recited poetry but as conversations exchanged at a sophisticated social gathering – transposed from Parker’s New York of the’ ‘20’s/’30’s to the “Santa Fe scene.”. Mood – and partners – change constantly in a kaleidoscope of variations on the game of love, the desperate silliness we all have known in its pursuit, and the unexpected healing of its fractures, as with the woman who chances to meet her last-year’s grand passion and now can only muse, “I thought that he was tall.”
The stories are performed in fast-paced, self-narrative style, combining theatrical action and characters with tongue-in-cheek story-telling, and reveal yearnings unsettlingly like our own. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), critic, playwright, author of several volumes of poems, has been called “one of the wittiest people in the world, and one of the saddest.”
We’re all familiar with “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses”, and perhaps with some of her other pithy comments: “One more drink and I’ll be under the host”, or – reviewing a play – “Katherine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
Parker’s stories and poems cover a much wider range, presenting the beauty and heartache of life and love and then ambushing us with wit, irony, and devastating characterization – a blend of acid humour and pathos that lingers like the taste of green apples: sweet-sour and unforgettable.
Actors in You Might As Well Live! are Jack Fairweather, Ruth Ryan, Donna Todd, and Kathleen White, all of Magdalena. Rita Broaddus, also of Magdalena, handles lighting and sound. Adaptation of Parker’s work is by Todd, as is play direction.
Make an (after-) Valentine date to join us for a spirit-lifting evening/afternoon entertainment. Performances are Friday, Feb. 15 and Saturday, Feb. 16, both at 7 pm, with a matinee on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 2 pm and again on Saturday, Feb. 23, 7 pm, and Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 pm, at Magdalena’s historic WPA Theatre, Main at Fourth. Tickets are $3.50 for adults, $2.00 for children, and are available at the door one hour prior to performance, and by Reservation at (575) 854-2519 or londonfrontier@gilanet.com (londonfrontier@gilanet.com).
This project is funded in part by the Kerr Foundation of Oklahoma, the McCune Foundation of Santa Fe, Socorro Electric Cooperative, & LFTC’s “Friends of the Theatre.”