With all the travels and beach trips, we've not done so much theater this summer. A mere two plays in two months: Radio Golf, produced at Studio Theater and Dirty Blonde at Signature.
Radio Golf, set in Pittsburgh--always important to us--is a class and race-based play about well to do educated blacks and the politics they play to redevelop an area, the Hill District, that is home to many older and not so well educated, nor affluent blacks. The interaction between the two classes, personified between the old owner of an old home, mistakenly sold to the developer and the young golfing politico who's redeveloping is a classic.
Dirty Blonde, a paeon to Mae West, by Claudia Shear, is marvelously well-done. The cast, local, take the play to excellence. Mae West became a caricature toward the end of her life, presented very well. The love of her innuendo, sex appeal, and life bring together to disparate individuals who meet at her gravesite to honor her birthday. A thoroughly enjoyable comedy.
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