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What is this play about?
Posted by DCA Theater on May 19, 2009 in January-June 2009 Season, Strauss At Midnight
Written by Jeff Dorchen, playwright
Jack Lemmon as Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar in “The Odd Couple”
You don’t need to read Leo Strauss, Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, Machiavelli, or see The Odd Couple or In the Heat of the Night to enjoy Strauss at Midnight, anymore than you need to read Shakespeare or Marlowe in order to enjoy Shakespeare in Love, or Sade to enjoy Quills, or On the Origin of Species to appreciate the drama of Inherit the Wind, or to have played seventy-six trombones to enjoy The Music Man. It may add to the experience, but it’s not at all necessary.
This play is about the ongoing struggle between two forces: those who condemn us to repeat history, and the rest of us. The rest of us are represented by the world of “The Odd Couple,” and those who condemn us to repeat history are represented ultimately by Leo Strauss and his disciple Allan Bloom.
Saul Bellow is the artist caught between the forces of his social environment and the inevitable gravity of the artist’s moral truth.
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How does this blogger thing work? Am I only allowed to leave comments or can I make “blog entries” like you’re doing?
OK. I got the answer to that question from Jess Mott Wickstrom of the DCA, who says that as a General User I can only post Comments.
I wanted to say that the DCA’s theater has been a good place to work.