Finster Finds

Brianne Jang BB Collective Photography Friday night I took in the Opening Night of Angry Alan presented by Northern Light Theatre, directed by Trevor Schmidt and starring Cody Porter. When I attended the season launch for NLT I thought the casting of Porter was so smart, because in just the preview the things that his character (Roger) said were highly inflammatory. Only someone like Porter could play this role and not have everyone dislike ( hate? ) him and Roger, outright. This was confirmed when I saw the show.  Roger is disillusioned with his life. It clearly has not gone the way he thought it would. It has not gone the way he felt he was promised - promised by society and it's expectations - and then Roger finds the Men's Rights Movement online. His frustrations with the world ( which he finds unfair and inexplicable ) are echoed by online persona Angry Alan, whose video rants feed Roger's need for answers. What's to blame? Feminism... it has clearly gone too far....

Immediately after my last post I was struck by something... it was respiratory and it lingered and I had to cancel tickets to several shows I had wanted to catch. I spent about a month literally 'on the couch', coughing and wheezing and sleeping.  In late November I did manage to catch The Ballad of Johnny and June at the Citadel and it was terrific! I should have blogged but I was not up to full strength. However, I saw this as a reaffirming of the standard of work I believe we should be seeing at a Regional Theatre. My mother liked it so much that she went twice and took my dad to it. That's a ringing endorsement! I took the big buy and he also really enjoyed it and he's hard to please!  In December I caught It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Walterdale Theatre. The company did a great job tapping into the iconic Christmas story. The cast handily embraced the multiple character voices of a radio play and the look (costumes and set) and sound of the play...