Living Room in Africa
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 22, 2006
Closed Apr 15, 2006
Opened Mar 22, 2006
Closed Apr 15, 2006
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Edge Theater Company presents the world premiere of Living Room in Africa, written by Bathsheba Doran and directed by Carolyn Cantor. After choosing to plant their artistic and financial ambitions in Africa, a wealthy couple find themselves in a village devastated by poverty and AIDS. When confronted with crisis, they are forced to question the value of their work and role in the community. Living Room in Africa is an unflinching exploration of personal and global responsibility reflected through the prism of poverty and the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
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One might expect that only the most idealistic person would leave behind a life of security and go on a philanthropic mission in a poverty-stricken country, but this is not the case with Marie and Edward (Ana Reeder and Rob Campbell), the protagonists of Bathsheba Doran's Living Room in Africa. These British expatriates have moved to an unidentified African nation to escape the fast pace of London life, to follow artistic opportunities, and also to get more bang for their bucks. (The British Pound has a lot of buying power in third-world countries). But, in the course of this powerful and poignant play, they discover how hard it is to live in a place of massive suffering without being affect[...]