The Desk Quartet – Four One Act Plays [] San Miguel Playhouse - November 4, 2021

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  • The Desk Quartet: Four One-Act Plays

    by Ethan Coen, Adam Bock, David Mamet, and Ron Hutchinson

    Thurs.,  Nov. 4,  7pm
    Fri.,  Nov. 5,  7pm
    Sat.,  Nov. 6,  7pm
    Sun.,  Nov. 7,  3pm
    Thurs.,  Nov. 11,  7pm
    Fri.,  Nov. 12,  7pm
    Sat.,  Nov. 13,  7pm
    Sun.,  Nov. 14,  3pm

    San Miguel Playhouse, Av. Independencia 82

    Reserved-seat tickets: 300 pesos

    Online tickets only at boletocity.com, or at the door


    “THE DESK QUARTET” AT THE NEWLY REOPENED SAN MIGUEL PLAYHOUSE

    By Henry Vermillion

    Suppose you woke up in a small office without doors or windows. You´re all alone except for a secretary stoically typing at her desk. “There´s no door?” you ask. “No.” “No smoking,” she says, as you reach for your cigarettes.  Finally, you say “I´m dead, aren´t I?” “Yes.”

    So where are you? Heaven? Hell? Purgatory?  That´s the question for Nelson, the protagonist of “Waiting,” by filmmaker Ethan Coen, one of the four short plays in The Desk Quartet, the first full production at the newly reopened San Miguel Playhouse. The show kicks off on Thursday, November 4 and runs for four performances, through Sunday, November 8 and continues the weekend of November 11—14.  The show’s title refers to the desk used in all the four plays, amid other scenery. Thirteen talented actors play the fifteen parts in the in the evening´s entertainment.

    Three of the quartet of plays are wry and funny—there’s also a David Mamet short called “The Interview,” about a self-justifying lawyer with an unsuccessful argument. The outlier is Adam Bock’s one-act play “The Receptionist,” a deceptively pleasant office drama that suddenly twists in a different and unsettling direction.

    The final piece is a reprise of the first scene of Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias, which, as many will remember, was the play that opened the Playhouse on October 14, 2014, just over seven years ago.  It´s an embellished but largely true story about the rewriting of the script of Gone with the Wind. Producer David O. Selznick, unhappy with the original screenplay, halted production after two weeks; shanghaied script doctor Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming (then shooting The Wizard of Oz); locked them in his office; and in five days, on a diet of bananas and peanuts (“brain food”), the three men rewrote the entire movie.

    All seats are reserved, $300 pesos for all sections, and tickets can be obtained online only, at boletocity.com, or at the door. The theater has been certified as safe by the public health authorities; all Covid protocols will be in place, masks are requested, and the Playhouse requests that only vaccinated clients attend.  Seating is limited to half the capacity of the house, with seats separated, except for a number of seats together for couples.

    Since its founding, The San Miguel Playhouse has featured full productions, concerts, radio plays, and other events, and has become a cultural landmark.  A number of the plays and events have been in Spanish, with simultaneous translations screened above, bridging the English and Spanish-speaking communities of our city. The Desk Quartet gives a theater-starved public a welcome treat in a safe setting.

    The San Miguel Playhouse is at 82 Avenida Independencia. The shows are at 7pm, except for 3pm matinees on Sundays. As usual, secure parking and after-show taxi service is provided.



     

    Fees: 300 pesos

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