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Thespian Thoughts – CAFÉ SOCIETY – “Relatable, hysterical & fiendishly clever”

Thespian Thoughts – CAFÉ SOCIETY – “Relatable, hysterical & fiendishly clever” | THESPIAN, THOUGHTS, THEATRE, REVIEW, SANDRO MONETTI, CAFE SOCIETY, ODYSSEY

 
 


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Thespian Thoughts Theatre Review – CAFÉ SOCIETY

“Relatable, hysterical & fiendishly clever”

 

Sometimes the simplest ideas for plays are the best ones…case in point this relatable, hysterical and fiendishly clever world premiere at LA’s Odyssey Theatre.
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It opens on a very familiar scene in modern life…five self-absorbed strangers sitting in a Starbucks all wrapped up in their own lives, laptops or cellphones.
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But they are soon forced to look up from their screens and battle for survival when an agitated young man bursts in carrying a bomb and a detonator threatening to blow the place up in protest at the coffee chain’s corporate greed.
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The comedy comes from the all too real reactions to this dilemma from the hostages – who include a screenwriter and an actress who see an opportunity to make a hit movie based on this incident, if they can just survive it.
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The drama comes from the depth of the characters – all of whom are troubled by their own setbacks and sense of injustice at the world, which gives them a certain amount of sympathy with the hostage taker.
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It’s delivered with so much truth and pathos by writer Peter Lefcourt and director Terri Hanauer and especially by actor Ian Patrick Williams as the most interesting of the customers, a financially ruined CEO turned homeless eccentric who has gone off the deep end mentally and now thinks he’s Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia.
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How it all turns out will keep you guessing right up until the end and the finish is an absolute triumph.
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Café Society
By Peter Lefourt

Directed by Terri Hanauer

At the Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays thru October 11, 2015

Tickets $25 and $30 from 323 960 1055 or Plays 411

Cast: Nick Cobey, Susan Diol, Eric Myles Geller, Chandra Lee Schwartz, Donathan Walters, Eric Wentz, Ian Patrick Williams with Kailyn Leilani and Gabriel Romero.

Produced by Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners

 


 


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Thespian Thoughts is a theatre review article on Actors Entertainment, a channel on the Actors Podcast Network, a Pepper Jay Production.

 

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