The deceptively mundane setting of a domestic living room is a springboard into a search for individual and marital identity in The Lover, one of two Harold Pinter plays produced jointly by Jewel Theatre Company and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and running through May 19 at the Center Stage in Santa Cruz.
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Jewel Theatre’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ Skewers Snobs
A specter haunts the Condomine household, but the incorporeal emanation of Charles Condomine’s first wife is the spirit with which Blithe Spirit, which plays at Center Stage through May 20, concerns itself the least. Instead we are invited to laugh at the vanity, arrogance, pretense and pomp of the English middle class.
‘Hello and Goodbye’ at Jewel Theatre
Johnny’s face and shiny head are drenched with sweat as the frantic middle-aged character pleas with his older sister to stay out of their father’s bedroom. There, Johnny fears she might uncover one of the family’s last remaining secrets—that their father isn’t even there.
