There are so many plays about aging, and the loss of memory. Few of them have this degree of economy and breadth of perspective. How can something so small feel so large? This isn’t a play, it’s a prayer.--BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
In Seven Spots on the Sun (Boston Court Performing Arts Center through November 1, a doctor in a war-torn country discovers that, with a laying on of his hands, he can cure a plague. One question in Martin Zimmerman’s play is, given his grief and rage at how local politics has decimated his purpose in life, does he really want to be a miracle worker? Zimmerman discusses this, and other aspects of his play, his writing, and of human love and cruelty. --BY DEBORAH KLUGMAN
For our local theater scene, the huge event of the week was the release late Saturday evening of the legal brief filed with the US District Court by the Pro99-Seat Union Plaintiffs against their own Union, Actor’s Equity Association.
On Saturday, October 17, plaintiffs representing L.A's. intimate theater community, and consisting of Equity members and some plaintiffs from the 1989 lawsuit against AEA that resulting in a Settlement Agreement, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California for breaching that Settlement Agreement (among other complaints), but have not yet served the Union, in the hopes of bringing AEA back to the negotiating table.
