Patch Entertainmnet Event: Other Desert Cities- A Piercing Play Meriting Jon Baitz -Pulitzer Prize-Final & STAR Kudos for ICT Director & Cast

Other Desert Cities- A Piercing Play Meriting Jon Baitz -Pulitzer
Prize-Final & STAR Kudos for ICT Director & Cast

Reviewed By: Joseph
Sirota, Reviewer (Joe At The Show 4U)

What a timely daring/diverse play selection by ICT as it nears its 30th
Anniversary. Other Desert Cities is A Piercing Play Meriting
Jon Robin Baitz a Pulitzer Prize-Final & Outer Critics Circle Award.  Also
worthy of Kudos for wise, incisive direction is
ICT
leader, (caryn desai), plus a 1,000
Volt, power-packed Cast. The play itself deeply presents us with
moment after moment of insightfulness on the deep-inner-differences of each
family member we meet in a handsome Palm
Springs home. Changed "Life-Values" &
"Styles Speaking", crushed what was past Family Love. This itself, can
carry the play's tale plentifully striking out into the fiery impact of pain due
to today's world of disagreements. The people we see are amazingly not only a
view into a "family", but a quite realistic of our Earth's 21st Century.
Vividly, daily bitter servings of "politics", "economics", "religions",
"generations", "countries" (& sadly, a plethora of far
more "Human-Disagreements"), are like the warlike medals which we
earned over these first 21st Century years in which anger and disappointment have
pushed aside the love and warmth we
humans might well have blossomed and shared together, rather than separate
us. We learn there have been past loses despite what seems like a wealthy
living standard, with many friends & outlandish enjoyments to choose.

Don't think the play, or this family, is only
negative. It is very touching, and warm memories paint fields of past admiring
and loving each other. It's just focused more sharply & fiercely of more
intense floating views of damages & each reaching out for what means most
to their dreams, & planting angry seeds at other family members' far
differently paths taken. Oh, if togetherness just  had felt more than each individual's personal
"paths" & "wants". But this is a family of very SMART
and HANDSOME and CREATIVE & FIRM members we meet ... and such powerful
gifts each carried, wants to follow their selected path, & as they care
about you as a "member" of the "clan" ... Well, let's just
say, they want you to follow the best Goals & reach for the same
"Golden-Rings" that they decided for themselves. I won't say more
about how or why, love, caring or other humanity aspects may also reach out in
broader shades. Suffering, sadness & anger seem above all?, Some of us may
find hope, not only in the tough play's tale of a damaged family, we're pulled
into, but perhaps hope also makes us examine our own tough World paths, too!
It's up to you. Come & see! Can good hopes disarm anger? Hmm...Maybe!

 The People that made This Interesting ICT live
production currently Offering:

Jon Robin Baitz: (Writer): Strong
Playwright, toughly brings Humanity-Characters & their worlds
he captures us Deep(TV & Film too).

caryn desai: (Director): As well as the ITC, Long Beach City's International City Theatre's Artistic
Director/Producer, caryn is
particularly an outstanding guide in the ability to find inner psychology &
strengths. She offers tenderness, wounds, fears & anger too(A great-"fit"!)

The Find CAST:   Ann Noble (Daughter): This is a rough Key-role, very well done. Not only are there very wide
ranges of changes to win family members(& we the
audience).. & the writer's said
she's very smart, but somewhat med/depressed. T'ain't easy to
do both.

Suzanne Ford (Mother): This is an impossible
character to live with-as Mom! But Mama S.Ford is so fabulous,
I'd let her adopt me!!!

Nicholas Hormann (Father): Heck of Good Guy-Success/Showman/Politician/Family member-Amazingly
Warm & Likable- I Believe!

Eileen T'Kaye (Aunt): T'K is a Killer, I've Yay'd
before & hope to see in more shows.
But Baitzs Ingrate+++ Heart? GetOutaMyHome!  

Blake Anthony Edwards (Brother): Blake-not?Actors Equity YET -But he was an absolute Life-raft & Most "Real" Baitz Character

Production Backstage ICT Team:  Set
Design-(JR Bruce); Costuming-(Kim DeShazo); Lighting
Design-(Debra Garcia Lockwood);
Sound Design-(Dave Mickey); Casting-(Michael Donovan);    Stage Manager-(Henry Fernandez)

---Other Desert Cities... is "captivating" theatre lovers at ICT International City
Theatre 300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach CA. Sched: Thurs-thru-Sat @ 8 PM &
Sun Matinees @ 2:PM: Closes-June 29.
Tickets: $42-47. (Students/ Seniors/ Teachers/ Groups for--Discounts). Call: (562) 436-4610.   Online: www.InternationalCityTheatre.com