Salt Lake City Theater Examiner | The passion of art: Red coming to Salt Lake Acting Company

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Jenniffer Wardell | January 23, 2012

For artists, the creation of a painting (or anything else artistic, for that matter), has the same passion and life-or-death struggle as the storyline of any play or opera. It's the eternal struggle to make something true, something that has never existed before, and it demands the sacrifice of real blood, sweat and tears to have any hope of victory. [Read article]

 

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God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
Olivier Award and six-time Tony Award winning comedy centered around two sets of upper middle class parents having a cordial meeting in reaction to a schoolyard brawl between their sons. When rum replaces coffee and fragile egos crack, the conversation goes from civilized to savage. When parents parent you on parenting, the only thing left standing is the set.
Directed by John Caywood
Cast: Darrin Doman, Nell Gwynn, Zack Phifer, Christy Summerhays


(a man enters)
 by Elaine Jarvik & Kate Jarvik Birch
Semi-autobiographical and wildly-whimsical, (a man enters) is a an odyssey about love - and then what happens.
Directed by Alexandra Harbold
Cast: Joyce Cohen, Terence Goodman, Amanda Mahoney, Deena Marie Manzanares, Jesse Perry


Red
by John Logan
A Tony Award-winning play which ignites our passion and creativity as we enter Mark Rothko's head.  "I'm here to stop your heart.  I'm not here to paint pretty pictures." Rothko
Directed by Keven Myhre
Cast: Morgan Lund, Ted Powell


Course 86B in the Catalogue
 by Kathleen Cahill
A comedic riff on evolution set in a small community college in an arid state where extraordinary artifacts from the ancient past abound - some of them still living.
Directed by Tracy Callahan
Cast: Colleen Baum, Daniel Beecher, Elise Groves, Topher Rasmussen