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.
Published on Oct 21, 2007
