IN THE MANSION OF ARTS AND LETTERS, WE LIVE LIKE CHILDREN

Theatre is not a grown-up activity. People who work in theatre and put on plays are playing. I was first in a play, at school, when I was nine, and I was most recently in a play, in London, a few weeks ago. It was just the same. A banker puts on a costume and pretends to be an adult. I don’t.

--Wallace Shawn,

from an interview

in Harper's

THE TASTE OF IDEAS TRIPPING OFF THE TONGUE

Joel Beers of the O.C. Weekly was good enough to interview me about THE FEVER, which opens Thursday at 8pm:

I suppose one of the primary assets of [Wallace Shawn's] work is that he's completely unabashed about being a smarty-pants intellectual., The foundational style of his plays is that they're built up from this aesthetics of ideas. They're just so clearly in love with the idea of ideas. His characters dance about with one another's philosophies and political ideologies, luxuriating in this kind of wild, intellectual promiscuity. And the Fever is a great encapsulation of that sensibility.

Tickets are but a wee $10, and can be purchased online here.

--Orange Curtains