Waiting For Fiorelli
Thu, 11 May 2000, 02:49 pmGrant Malcolm1 post in thread
Waiting For Fiorelli
Thu, 11 May 2000, 02:49 pmIf the opening offering from Four Mondays in May is any indication, then the Blue Room's series of four playreadings is going to be well worth attending.
The chances are though, that Waiting for Fiorelli is that rare and exceptional thing - a brilliant new play!
Fiorelli (please excuse the shorthand) might be characterised as a sharp critique of the american dream, but this would lump the play in with a host of other utterly different offerings and provide no insight into the multi-faceted experience that the play offers.
This new play by american-born, west australian Dan Archibald is set in the american Mid-West some time about now. It visits the lives of two well known american teen archetypes, twenty-something years after prom night.
You might hardly recognise Roy, the school jock, wearing a limp courtesy of Vietnam experience. This bitter individual at first sight appears a shadow of the ideal so familiarly portrayed in much american culture.
His wife Vivien is more immediately recognisable as she makes her first stage appearance in the cheerleader's outfit that broke so many hearts in highschool. The costume's right and Vivien's still got "it". But twenty years of unrealised dreams and daily drudgery in the deli department at the local supermarket have taken their toll on a spirit that yearns to see the sea, just once.
Dan's play was given a very fine reading by a cast of Perth's finest, George Shetsov, Christine Best, Bob Faggetter and Steve Turner under the experienced guidance of Marcelle Schmitz.
Dan has been receiving support in developing the script from Stages, the WA Playwrights Consortium. I can only hope this support grows and that we see a production of Waiting For Fiorelli on our stages very soon.
In the meantime, check out the next three Mondays in the What's On section. Excellent offerings from distinguished casts - and it's free!
Cheers
Grant
The chances are though, that Waiting for Fiorelli is that rare and exceptional thing - a brilliant new play!
Fiorelli (please excuse the shorthand) might be characterised as a sharp critique of the american dream, but this would lump the play in with a host of other utterly different offerings and provide no insight into the multi-faceted experience that the play offers.
This new play by american-born, west australian Dan Archibald is set in the american Mid-West some time about now. It visits the lives of two well known american teen archetypes, twenty-something years after prom night.
You might hardly recognise Roy, the school jock, wearing a limp courtesy of Vietnam experience. This bitter individual at first sight appears a shadow of the ideal so familiarly portrayed in much american culture.
His wife Vivien is more immediately recognisable as she makes her first stage appearance in the cheerleader's outfit that broke so many hearts in highschool. The costume's right and Vivien's still got "it". But twenty years of unrealised dreams and daily drudgery in the deli department at the local supermarket have taken their toll on a spirit that yearns to see the sea, just once.
Dan's play was given a very fine reading by a cast of Perth's finest, George Shetsov, Christine Best, Bob Faggetter and Steve Turner under the experienced guidance of Marcelle Schmitz.
Dan has been receiving support in developing the script from Stages, the WA Playwrights Consortium. I can only hope this support grows and that we see a production of Waiting For Fiorelli on our stages very soon.
In the meantime, check out the next three Mondays in the What's On section. Excellent offerings from distinguished casts - and it's free!
Cheers
Grant