Subject: [footlights] Infantry Monologues Closes Sunday Nite

 

 

Worth attending to experience three very different but powerful, troubling and timely perspectives about the ways events now can influence American lives -- be they military or civilian -- and the choices we make.  Tobin Atkinson, who stars in the first, wrote and directed. After hearing him tell his hard-hitting story filled with horrific Native American witchcraft in Coyoteway to an unseen Canadian cop, I fully believe he served (in real life) as a rifleman in the I-16 Infantry Regiment.

 

Jenny Crooks, whom many of us know from Studio Theatre, plays a Spanish-speaking medic in the Armed Forces in Iraq in Use of Force. Her convincing words, as she readies herself for action again, cause us to question responsibility, revenge, sacrifice, racial and sexual bias, the war overseas -- and more issues than would fit here.

 

2CC stars Parker Dixon, who threateningly focuses on the intense and scary struggle between secular and religious forces in this country . Be prepared to feel unsettled from the start to the finish.

 

What draws these monologues together and apart would have made for a great discussion over a Footlights dinner. See and talk about them before Sunday night when they close.

Diane

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