About This Show
Barefoot Theatre Company presents the revival of Joe Pintauro’s seminal feast of short-plays: Metropolitan Operas.
Featuring 10 of Pintauro’s 27 short plays (in this order): In Charlie’s Farewell a man delivers a heartfelt, if tangential, eulogy, Birds In Church is about two priests trying to catch exotic birds who may or may not be messengers from God, Rules of Love uncovers the dilemma facing a man of God who is forced to reconcile his sexual feelings with the rules of his vocation, Rex is the name of the bird two vegetarians force themselves to eat because one accidentally killed him, the characters in Soft Dude were sexually abused as children, but can’t connect these atrocities to their fear of one another, Dirty Talk is a turning back of the clock in a deliberate act of filial revenge, Butterball is a dark political comedy about life after Pinochet, followed by House Made of Air, in which Pablo Neruda’s widow revisits her past with the great poet, and Fiat is about an AIDS patient’s ascension into heaven and the mysterious stranger that leads him there where Parakeet Eulogy closes things out with a priest’s discovery of true hope and eternal love.
There are three directors directing 10 plays: Lisa Melita French, Michael LoPorto, and Francisco Solorzano.