![]() For legal and, perchance, aesthetic reasons, the names have been changed. But you could not apply that charge to the new play at the Northlight Theatre, written by the actress Amanda Peet. This is why we’ve seen such a rise in the prestige and currency of television. The Commons of Pensacola: One persistent critique of the American theater is that writers are too slow to react to current events. PREVIEW Theater for fall 2014: Looking local, Airline Highway to Native Son The Commons of Pensacola: With the recent death of Bernie Madoff’s last surviving son, Andrew, Amanda Peet’s play about the wife of a Madoff-like figure coming to terms with her husband’s crimes may have extra poignancy. PREVIEW 50 shows for fall: The game’s just beginning ![]() Peet’s drama is set on Thanksgiving, as Ruth’s daughters Becca (Lusia Strus) and Ali (Lori Myers) arrive for a visit that unleashes the demons buried just below the surface at Judith’s new Florida home. Whether you have a tie to Madoff or not, The Commons of Pensacola tells a compelling story of a family struggling with crippling guilt and trying to mend relationships that seem irrevocably broken. Every year, she gets reinvestigated and polygraphed,” Kimbrough says. But, you know, they’re still trying to find out what happened to all that money. “I have a relative who worked in Madoff’s office. …For director Robin Witt, the questions Commons asks are as significant as they are vexing: “What happens to a family that’s been destroyed from within? What happens when you’re so hated, when the things your husband or father has done are so heinous that you don’t even have the right to mourn his loss?”Īs Judith, veteran Chicago actor Linda Kimbrough has a personal connection to Madoff and the ruinous schemes that cost people their homes, their retirement and even their health. PREVIEW Bernie Madoff story inspired darkly comic Commons of Pensacola Their blistering mother-daughter firefight is a stunner. And director Robin Witt, who is enjoying a stellar year ( The Commons follows on the heels of her extraordinary helming of Griffin Theatre’s Men Should Weep), has gathered a cast of six that is pure perfection …Īs mother and daughter, Kimbrough and Strus, veteran Chicago actresses who can flip from tragedy to comedy in a single breath, are a match made in heaven as two women imprisoned in a web of love, loss, fear and need. Peet has managed to spin her story into an airtight 90 minutes full of memorable characters and painful truths. In fact, it is all these things, and more. ![]() A few might even call it an American tragedy. Others might call it a picture of the afterlife, or a study in collateral damage, guilt, denial and our uniquely 21st century form of tabloid narcissism. ![]() Some might describe The Commons of Pensacola - the tremendously accomplished first play written by actress Amanda Peet, now receiving a deliciously fierce Midwest premiere at Northlight Theatre - as a tale of survival. REVIEW The Commons of Pensacola homes in on shattered family Sergei Prokofiev’s unforgettable music and Nicholas Georgiadis’ colossal sets and lavish costumes further emphasize the beauty and passion of this beloved ballet and its star-crossed lovers.Production photos by Michael Brosilow. A master storyteller, MacMillan packs even greater drama and emotion through movement into an already heartbreaking tale. Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, this version of the classic story had its company premiere at the Kennedy Center in 1985.Īgainst the sumptuous setting of Renaissance Italy, MacMillan weaves a “dance tapestry rich in character that is rhapsodic and sensuous” ( The New York Times). With a depth of talent and the ability to present multiple casts of dancers in leading roles, the celebrated company brings Shakespeare’s tragic play of forbidden love- Romeo and Juliet. Declared “America’s National Ballet Company ®” by an act of Congress in 2006, American Ballet Theatre has performed annually at the Kennedy Center since we opened our doors.
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