Steve Martin strikes again… as playwright
Martin and the Players transport their audience to Paris in 1904 — and the bar called Au Lapin Agile. And who do we find there? None other than Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso.
Martin and the Players transport their audience to Paris in 1904 — and the bar called Au Lapin Agile. And who do we find there? None other than Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso.
If staging a play is a challenge, director Anne Harper has helped East Side Players rise to the occasion with its production of “Speaking in Tongues.” “They like to do things a little more challenging in this theatre company,” she said in an interview.
Joanna Murray-Smith, one of Australia’s leading playwrights, offers her best in this 2002 play, recreating the intricacies and moral quandaries of middle-class life. Director Heather Roberts, with 25 years’ experience both backstage and on stage, handles the nuances of the play with precision and deftness.
“In a community theatre, especially in a space this size, we usually have one set,” director Jan Francies said. “With this play, we have three sets. It was an enormous challenge.”