Sounds great! I lo e going to plays but i doubt its on a Mon or Tue.
So reminds me of a conversation i had with a coworker, a philipino man.
His family is one half public servants, mayors, librarians commumity
leaders but the other half? Straight up criminals! Gangs, drugs, guns. And
his grandmother was the worst of them all! He called her a grifter. The
family escaped Philippines during martial law- bc of the connections on the
"good" side. In the US his gm was constantly on the run for the illegal
land deals she made- compulsively it seems. She moved states like every 4
months😂
The things you learn from chatting with your coworkers on your break
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 8:27 PM Vicki Killian <vickillian1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Saw Time Is On Our Side today. Thought provoking and well written.
The theater requires proof of vaccination and it wasn't crowded. Show's
there through August 28.
https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/perisphere-theater/time-is-on-our-side-16730/
ABOUT TIME IS ON OUR SIDE
What if everything you thought you knew about your family history was
wrong?
Annie and Curtis are friends who produce and host a wildly unpopular
podcast about Philadelphia history. When they discover a diary suggesting
that Annie’s grandmother was a closeted lesbian, the two friends—both gay
themselves—have thoroughly opposite reactions. Curtis sees the story as a
way of taking the podcast in a new direction and building its audience.
Annie is afraid that delving into the past will destroy her idyllic image
of her family.
In addition to exploring the issues of friendship and honesty, this
hilarious and poignant play tackles fundamental questions about how we view
the past: Who owns history? Who gets to tell it? Are there parts of it that
are best left untold?
Playwright
R. Eric Thomas (he/him)
Eric is the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia and D.C. Until
recently he was a senior staff writer for Elle.com where he wrote “Eric
Reads the News,” a daily current events and culture column with hundreds of
thousands of readers. His debut memoir-in-essays, Here for It, was released
by Ballantine Books in 2020 and was hailed by Lin-Manuel Miranda as “David
Sedaris-level, laugh-out-loud funny.” As a playwright, Thomas is a 2018
winner of the Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award and was a finalist for
the 2017 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. For Time Is On Our Side, Eric won
the 2016 Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for best new play.
