Look at the poster image for this play, Still and you get a real sense of how this story as we experience it feels. Not the stillness of waiting, nor the stillness of rest. No, this three-person drama makes us feel the stillness between moments--between life changing words and decision, between realizations. Even between the question asked and the answer given. On top of that we have the subject matter--sexual assault, which still remains a matter to avoid rather than confront, to seek excuses rather than understand truth. In this case, the entire work seems to take place in all the still moments described above, a refuge from the "still" also inferred above. A fragile or at least delicate in some ways young woman, her best and maybe only friend who took her to a party, and the girlfriend of the boy who died--they wander in these moments, sometimes apart, sometimes alone, sometimes with each other. The impact is powerful and haunting. Theatre, a teacher once told me, is inherently revolutionary. If you leave the exact same person who sat down that performance is a failure. This is no failure. Quite the opposite!
PERFORMANCES
Thursday, June 7 at 8:30pm
Friday, June 8 at 8:30pm
Saturday June 9 at 5:30pm
Sunday June 10 at 12:30pm
Thursday June 14 at 8:30pm
Friday June 15 at at 7:30pm
Saturday June 16 at 5:30pm and 11:55pm
Sunday June 17 at 12:30pm
Thursday June 21 at 8:30pm
Friday June 22 at 11:30pm
Saturday June 23 at 4pm
Sunday June 24 at 1:30pm and 6pm
LOCATION
Let Live Theatre, 916 North Formosa Avenue (just south of Santa Monica Blvd, past La Brea)
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