This weekend in the midst of catching Rogue Festival shows, I went to see The 39 Steps at 2nd Space in Fresno, and it was the perfect ending to a long, fun day!
My Christmas season isn't complete until I have seen A Christmas Carol in some form, as it is one of my favorite Christmas stories. This year I got a jump-start on that by seeing it on stage presented by Good Company Players at 2nd Space in Fresno.
I have been a fan of Oscar Wilde ever since seeing Gross Indecency earlier this year presented by The New Ensemble, and find myself wondering why it took me so long to discover his work. When I heard that 2nd Space was doing The Importance Of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar Wilde, I couldn't wait to see it!
Good Company’s 2nd Space Theatre is presenting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dale (Man of La Mancha) Wasserman’s adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, Thursdays through Sundays until August 18, and your visit will be shocking, horrifying, distressing, funny, and memorable.
Two people sit at desks and read letters they wrote to each other. Does this sound like riveting theatre? Believe it or not, it is.
Now, on a night that your wife is being admitted to a hospital and had had a fender-bender on the way, is it a good idea to try to review a comedy where much merriment is made out of where a too-loose glass eye might go?
Yes.
I needed to laugh that night, and The Red Velvet Cake Wars at the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space gave me lots of opportunities to do it.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Most of us have read it…or were supposed to read it, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-winning novel of coming of age in a pre-civil-rights-movement South. To Kill a Mockingbird. Most of us have seen it, Gregory Peck’s Oscar-winning performance as a lawyer battling for justice for all set a standard for screen integrity. To Kill a Mockingbird, Christopher Sergel’s stage adaptation of Lee’s book, is now playing at the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space. You need to see it.
Beau Jest has nothing to do with the French Foreign Legion. Beau Geste was a 1924 P. C. Wren novel (repeatedly adapted for the screen) about English brothers who end up in the Foreign Legion. A beau geste is a grand and honorable gesture or act. A beau is a boyfriend. A jest is a joke. Beau Jest, now playing at the Good Company Players’ Second Space, is James Sherman’s comic play about a nice Jewish girl trying to fool her parents by hiring an actor to pretend to be her non-existent Jewish-doctor boyfriend. I hope that clears up any misunderstandings. Be prepared for a quiz later.
