August
27
Hello dear reader. Back again. So continuing on our dramaturgical journey for “A Bad Friend,” there are a tremendous amount of movie references in the play. Also there is the Uncle Morty character. He is the brother of Rose’s mother. He is a Hollywood screenwriter who changed his name from Klein to King (Why do you ask? To hide his Jewishness. A common practice in Hollywood.). He is about to be called before the HUAC committee (What is HUAC you ask? Oiy, don’t get me started. That is a whole other blog.) HUAC was the House Un-American Activities Committee that during the 40’ and 50’s investigated suspected Communists. From them came the Hollywood blacklisting that started in 1947. Read the rest of this entry »
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August
27
So here we are bloggers and bloggettes. First one will be about our upcoming production (surprise, surprise). I am elbows deep in this one and I probably could not write about anything else. I’ll give you our ‘official’ blurb about the show…
Set in Brooklyn in 1953, A BAD FRIEND brings us into the household of Shelly and Naomi Wallach, a middle-aged couple who are as fervently opposed to McCarthyism, anti-Semitism and exploitation of the working class as they are passionately committed to the Rosenbergs, civil rights and Stalin. Their independent-minded teenage daughter, Rose, squirms under the weight of her parents’ oppressive Marxist principles. “Maybe I’m only a liberal,” Rose says, which provokes a stern lecture from her mother and father. As the antagonism between the rigidly ideological parents and their questioning, rebellious daughter grows, it becomes increasingly clear that politics is personal and that developing your own beliefs comes at a price.
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