Smokefall
Backyard Renaissance's in residency show at the La Jolla Playhouse features top performances, as expected. Putting Antonio T.J. Johnson, Francis Gercke, Jessica John, Brian Mackey, and relative newcomer Fedra Ramirez Olivares on the same stage guarantees fireworks. The play's another matter. Part Thornton Wilder's Our Town (a day in the life, in s case, of a dysfunctional family), part Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth (events from different times happen at once), part hilarious vaudeville routine (Gercke and Mackey brilliant as existential twins in the womb), and part lecture -- Noah Haidle's philosophical comedy's three, relatively short one-acts ilustrate life's irreversible turns and roads taken and not, most given a running commentary by an Our Town-like narrator called Footnote, who explains and explains. But the play doesn't need spelling out (often too pseudo-wise for its own good). Backyard's actors do that by themselves. Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, September 16, 2018
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 2pm & 8pm |