Linda can speak with the dead. Hilda wants to. The Echo Theater Company presents a spine-tingling new play that questions the things we don’t know and can’t understand. Abigail Deser directs the California premiere of The Thin Place by Obie Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath (Broadway’s A Doll's House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; Dana H), running March 18 through April 24 at Atwater Village Theatre. Three Pay-What-You-Previews are set for March 15, 16 and 17.
Can we talk with the departed? Communicate with loved ones we’ve lost? In The Thin Place, Hnath toys with perceptions of reality and the omnipresence of death. Are psychic abilities real, or merely a cunning illusion that awakens our deepest desires?
Linda promises that if you listen — really listen — she can take you to the “thin place,” the fragile boundary between our world and the next. Hilda is grappling with loss and seeking answers. She is listening — hard.
“Grief and loss can propel us into this unfamiliar, unrecognizable and often alarming territory where our questions ring loudly and answers are elusive,” says Deser. “Our varied religious and scientific structures that we hold true cannot fully explain where the anima, the soul of our loved ones, has disappeared to when their corporeal expression has been shed, left lifeless.”
The Thin Place opens on Saturday, March 18, with performances continuing on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 4 p.m.; and Mondays at 8 p.m. through April 24. Three preview performances are set for Wednesday, March 15; Thursday, March 16; and Friday, March 17, each at 8 p.m. Tickets are $34 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. All Monday night performances, as well as previews, are pay-what-you-want. Atwater Village Theatre is located at 3269 Casitas Ave in Los Angeles, CA 90039.
For more information and to purchase tickets, call (310) 307-3753 or go to www.EchoTheaterCompany.com.
ArtCenter Exhibitions is pleased to announce HELLO LA, a timely exhibition that surveys the work of renowned designer, author and educator Clive Piercy (1955-2017). With an unparalleled career spanning 40 years in London and Los Angeles, Piercy developed a signature design style marked by radical uses of typography, and the humorous and rigorous blending of British and American design, all with an Angeleno flair. Known for a dedication to craft, as well as to the ethics and aesthetics of graphic design, Piercy was a beloved figure whose work has resonated globally.
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