FALSE SOLUTION at the Santa Monica Playhouse

Photo by Cal Dixon

Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly

If you’re not much on abstract theory when it comes to interpreting architecture as art, chances are you’ll find Oren Safdie’s False Solution slow-going stuff. A student of architecture before becoming a playwright, Safdie – son of famed architect Moshe Safdie, who designed L.A.’s Skirball Cultural Center – integrates high-toned analytical jargon into a sexually-laced confrontation between a famous architect (Daniel J. Travanti) tasked with designing a Holocaust museum in contemporary Poland and the attractive and impassioned architectural intern (Amanda Saunders) who challenges his ideas.]  Read more…