4 edges

 

I’m glad that I went to support amphibian in the viewing of their play four edges.  This play was a little hard to grasp from the inception to the conclusion.  The playwright was on hand from New York to give her spill on what the play meant to her and how it was portrayed through the director.  I hadn’t realized how many people are interlaced in producing live theatre.  It really helped me out when designing spaces for the new amphibian theatre mixed use facility for our project.  I was amazed that the playwright had the idea for the play when she was driving up to a family gathering In Ohio.  I think that it was Ohio, Maybe Michigan.  I’m not sure on that one.  It was amazing however that she could be driving in a car with her husband and think of the polar characters that pull and tug on each other to create conflict within the play.  I’m not going to give away the plot, but there is a theme of being lost without a purpose in ones work.  There is a theme of being torn between a new love and the one you have.  There is a feeling of separation between the only things that remind you of that love.  There is a sense of loss when those things are gone.  There is also a sense of what the heck did I just see and how do I interpret it in the end.  This is one of the things that the playwright wanted to incorporate into her play.  She wanted the audience to not really know what happens to the dynamic characters in the end.  As one person in the audience said, “This is a great conversational piece for an after play dinner.”  It is because I believe that every person’s reaction to the story was different in the end.  I found myself trying to come up with theories on how the characters came move on and grow.  I tried to understand what the gibberish language that was spoken in the play meant, and why the people in the distant country didn’t use it anymore.  I’m still confused which is why it is so hard to write about this experience other than it made the bond between the client and architect closer.  I was able to better understand what it meant to put on a production for the actors and people behind the scenes.     

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