David Fleisher

Theatre

speed-the-plow @ roslyn packer theatre

“Everybody’s a dreamer/Everybody’s a star/And everybody’s in show biz/It doesn’t matter who you are.”

                                     The Kinks : Celluloid Heroes

David Mamet sets his play – the obscurely titled  “SPEED-THE-PLOW” in Los Angeles in the late 1980s.  

The Kinks lyrics

Theatre

children of the sun

With Maxim Gorky’s 1905 play CHILDREN OF THE SUN we are in similar territory to another classic Russian play, Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Both plays depict Russia’s old feudal world in its last, very oblivious throes.

The main difference …

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