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If you had to describe love as a color, what color would you
imagine it? Is it red that you feel, or perhaps blue? Maybe it has no color at
all?
Relationships are complex and challenging aren’t they? We
bring our hopes, our desires, our fears and past with us as we search for that slice of heaven with that significant other. As someone who has been in more
than a few relationships, I want to share with you the delightful experience I
had last night at the world premiere of
L
ove Like Blue
, a
heartfelt and compelling play by the award-winning Kristen Lazarian, at the
cozy
Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
It is a story of three couples at the
near end of their relationships, bound to swirl in the everlasting entropy of
human existence, moving back and forth between chaos and order, carrying over
the light and color of their past relationship into each current one.
The second act takes place a year later, when the characters
have had a chance to move on with their lives and are looking for new love, new
connection and new meaning. But love and life are mixed together, aren’t they?
And we see how each character carries residue from his or her past and moves
forward with a mix of hope and fear, lust and love, trial and error, pain and
success.
You know that a play is
good when it sends you home thinking. It is impossible not to identify with at
least one of the couples, feel their pain, their love, their despair, their
triumph and loneliness. My dear wife joined me for
Love Like Blue
and we secretly exchanged smiles during the play, and I am sure you will do the
same! This tale is right here on earth, touching the lives of each and every
one of us, in our ongoing hope for love.
The experienced
Moosie Drier, accompanied by a unique,
brilliantly directed the play and talented cast who, I am sure were challenged
by this play and yet managed to provide an authentic experience for the
audience. The cast includes
Heidi Brook Myers, Sandra Purpuro, Megan Tropea,
Josh Daugherty, Warren Davis and
Bryan Rasmussen.
So folks, now is the time to treat yourselves to something
truly unique and more than anything else, something real.
Love Like Blue is a play I am
happy to recommend as I am sure it will touch you the same way it touched me.
The performances are on Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
from October 17 – November 15. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, or by
calling 1-800-759-7669 for $20. More information about the theatre at www.whitefiretheatre.com.
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