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Jessi D. Hill s production of Ushuaia Blue offers us a performance piece that is part tone poem, part personal tragedy, part environmental meditation. Shifting with ease from one time and place, and from one frame of mind, to another, the cast offers us a glimpse of how our understanding of global climate change needs to expand-beyond the microscopes and bathyscaphes, beyond the labs, beyond those cute penguins, and out onto the ever-more-endangered ice of Antarctica.
A Panel Discussion with Playwright, Jordan Harrison, Cast and Director
When I sat in the audience for the opening of “The Amateurs,” I did not know that one week later the theatre would go dark. As the first week of performances ended, the cast and crew had a better inkling as they looked out at an almost empty audience. They realized the play’s run was coming to its finale. One of the actors warned his parents if they wanted to see the show, they better come soon. Even they did not realize how long theaters would be dark. There is still no definite time when Olney Theatre Center and other venues will be able to officially open. Even then, the time when theaters can open at full capacity seems a long way off. Jordan Harrison, the playwright, did not think it would last more than one or two months.