Innovation Theatre Works is a pretty cool little theater company. They’ve done some daring, edgy shows in this town and they’ve done them pretty well.
But for a bunch of reasons, the nonprofit that got started here in 2009, is on the brink of going under and, as a news release they sent today shouts in capital letters, they WILL NOT GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT.
They’ve got a play in production right now called Waiting for Godot—it’s one of the most important plays of the entire century by anyone’s mark—and they are so serious about selling tickets to this thing that they’ve cut the ticket prices to $15 when you buy them at their website.
Our reviewer saw the show and said the performances ranked right up there with some of the best theater she’s seen in the state.
So, go.
This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2012.
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I saw the initial New York performance; the original cast could not be faulted, of course–real pro’s. But the text of Samuel Becket’s play is a meditation on Existential Reality–interesting philosophical disquisition, not theatrical in the least, at least theater regarded as conflict and/or resolution of interesting characters of the human dilemmatic dimmension. Why a provincial theater company would choose such a showcase for their undoubted talent is puzzling, to say the least. You can’t argue with nothingness. All you get is the sound of silence.