ART production diaries

Jason LaGarde, Serge

This is my second production with Omaemoda, my first 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' was a fantastic experience and I'm really excited about this one.

I'm a bit of an amateur thesbian with no real professional training, but lots of dabbling. My productions include My Fair Lady, Dracula, The Crucible, Moonchildren, Lend Me A Tenor (as Max), and Hedda Gabler.

'Art' is truly a complicated piece that while a 'play of its time', it's also a
play of any time. Where one truly questions the foundations upon which one has constructed their own self-image. I don't know that it's possible to read this script without your emotions rising in response to the conflict.

Out of all the characters, I find I identify with Marc the most, the "conservatist" of the group. I've often found myself annoyed by friends of mine who like Serge seem to get some "deeper meaning" from seemingnly non-sensical new age or modern expressionism. And also by those like Yvan, who just agree and/or pretend to "get it", not because of any insight, but simply for the desire to be accepted.

I really enjoy the story, but I do experience some frustration from it because while it raises some excellent questions about how we define ourselves as members of our society, it doesn't suggest that there might be any answers to them.

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See Jason in Yasmina Reza's ART
Tuesday April 19 & Wednesday, April 20
Luna Books: 1633 P Street, NW
Happy Hour begins at 6 pm
Reading begins at 7 pm
Suggested Donation $10/Pay What You Can