Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive
Multi-talented playwright Bernardo Cubria’s topical The People of Pompeii is among the best original plays I’ve soon in quite a while. The action takes place in 2025 after the Palisades Fire almost wiped-out Topanga Canyon, just like Mount Vesuvius did to the eponymous, ancient Roman city of Pompeii, when that volcano blew its top in 79 AD. Cubria’s one-act comedy-drama was all the more of the moment and moving in that it was staged at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, an amphitheater perched right in the beating heart of Topanga. Read more…