Son of Semele Theatre

THE RIDICULOUS DARKNESS at Son of Semele Theatre

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Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw German playwright Wolfram Lotz’s play (translated by Daniel Brunet) is a zany satire on racism, racial stereotyping, and colonial attitudes in a supposedly post-colonial world. A farcical version of Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, via Apocalypse Now, it follows German Sergeant Oliver Pellner on a secret mission into the heart of … Read more

CIVILIZATION at Son of Semele Theatre

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Steven Leigh Morris  – LA Weekly Among people of a certain age I’ve spoken with recently, let’s say 45 and older, there’s this sense — not so much a perception or even an intuition, rather a more vague tingle — that something is going numb.This is not a physical sensation but a spiritual one. It … Read more