2012.12.6. Oedipus el Rey at ACT Theatre

Ese Teatro presents Luis Alfaro's new play Oedipus el Rey, a retelling of Greek legend in LA's Latino underworld. Despite all our efforts, fate rules. I'm a little disappointed as how the theme played out: almost no change from the original tragedy, except for one insignificant change: the LA Oedipus was raised by Tiresias. I was hoping for a slightly different ending. Good acting. Almost no stage set. I like the vertical bed scene, quite clever in a small theatre.

2012.12.4. Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant - a short play

Book-It stages part of John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany about Children putting up a nativity scene for a Christmas gathering in a New England town in 1950s. Wonderfully adapted by Jane Jones & Myra Platt. Almost no stage set. Short. A little over an hour, no intermission. Very funny. Good acting. It makes me want to read this novel.