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Molly Sweeney
Son of Semele Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
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Molly Sweeney
LA Weekly - "GO!"

"...a tender, profound staging of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney..."
- Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly

"Randee Trabitz directs her excellent ensemble on a stage divided by two translucent scrims."
- Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly

"Molly Sweeney is such a beautifully constructed play, but very tricky; director Randee Trabitz and stand out performers made it it all look effortless."
- Jennie Webb

The award-winning Irish playwrights drama about what it means to see is re-envisioned in a new Los Angeles production.

Drawing from Oliver Sacks case history entitled, "To See and Not See," Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel examines questions of sight and what it really means to see.  Although considered one of Friel's best plays, Molly Sweeney is seldom produced.

At the center of the play is Molly Sweeney, blind since 10 months of age.  Her passionate and impulsive husband of two years is determined that she should again see and seeks out a world-renown ophthalmologist.  These three characters take turns at telling the tale of the startling surgery to restore Molly's sight.  Their individual tales interweave to create a single thread of narrative.  The simplicity of the story and unembellished way in which it is related gives rise to complex issues of the philosophical differences between seeing and understanding.

"Ultimately, the audience sits in judgment of the 3 characters and their very specific decision to operate and restore Molly's sight," declares Director Randee Trabitz (St. Joan and the Dancing Sickness, Happy End, The Mystery of Irma Vep).  "They each tell the story from their own perspective, revealing their own need for Molly's operation, without much consideration of her very full and satisfying life as a blind woman.  The play becomes thematically universal and extremely provocative as it presents human nature and its inability to let well enough alone."

The cast includes three veterans of the Los Angeles Theatre Scene.  Melina Bielefelt (Theatre Movement Bazaar, LA Poverty Department), in the title role, is joined by Matthew McCallum (NCIS, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum) as her husband, Frank, and John Ross Clark (Heroes, Odyssey Theatre) as her doctor, Mr. Rice.  

Production Team: Set: Sibyl Wickersheimer, Costumes: Laura Wong, Lighting: Jaqueline Reid, Sound: John Zalewski, Dramaturg: James F. Boyle, Ph.D. Dialect Coach: Caroline Morahan, Stage Mgr: Jessica Amezcua, Postcard/Production Photos:  Don Raber www.donraber.com

Location

Son of Semele Theatre
3301 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
United States

Categories

Arts > Theatre

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: No
Wheelchair Accessible: No

Contact

Owner: In association with Oasis Theater Company
On BPT Since: Oct 12, 2009
 
Rebecca Rasmussen
www.oasistheaterco.org


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