That sounds like a novel!
Lois N. Weinberg
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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<mailto: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.
