The Wake
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 21, 2010
Closed Apr 18, 2010
Opened Mar 21, 2010
Closed Apr 18, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In Lisa Kron's The Wake, it's Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don't understand how bad the situation really is. But no one can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life.
This searing new work unearths the assumptions of privilege and comfort that lie deep in the heart of the American character, and confronts the inescapable truth that no matter how hard you look, how open or self-reflective you think you are, you'll never be able to see your own blind spot.
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Lisa Kron's multi-layered new play,
The Wake, now premiering at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (before moving on in May to Berkeley Repertory Theatre), concerns "blind spots" in our lives -- things that we miss seeing because they are truly invisible to us or because we're distracted by something else -- and how we live with the wake they leave behind.
Sadly, though, Kron and director Leigh Silverman seem to have some blind spots of their own. The Wake runs close to three hours (including intermission) and far too much of that time is spent rambling over the same points so often that numbness sets in and meaning is lost.
Ellen (Heidi Schreck) is a constantly jabbering activist and wannabe writ[...]