A Theater-Going Habit

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put that play into cold storage

filling my mind's meat locker

Aug 06, 2024
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Once a play is out there in the world and has had a few runs; playwrights step back and watch it blow to the four corners of the world.

For example, Lloyd Suh’s 2022 play, The Heart Sellers is playing in 10 theaters in the next year (so far):

4 performances in the Bay Area … ! Central California loves Lloyd Suh.

I spent a bunch of time thinking about Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers last year because it was unapologetically linear. straightforward storytelling with beautiful but barely magical lighting.

bizarrely brave. brave to risk being boring.

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