Island Stage Left offers ‘Trying’…opens on Friday!
Posted March 30, 2011 at 9:44 am by Ian Byington
The show runs Thursdays through Sundays, but opens this Friday, April first.
Are you as excited as I am about this spring’s show that our friends at Island Stage Left have opening this week?
Opening this weekend!
I’m gonna tell you – the show runs for five weeks, but don’t put off going because that wouldn’t work for you, with these possible consequences: a) it always gets more crowded toward the end of an Island Stage Left run, so you might not get a seat, b) you might miss out on the chance to see it twice (that’s what I usually do), and c) people will see you & say, “Have you seen the show?” and you’ll mumble some lame excuse & sound like those island transplants who say, “There’s nothing to do around here!” who complain about the ferries & move after a year.
You wouldn’t want that to happen. So go this weekend.
Here’s more about the show from Brenda Beckett:
“TRYING” revolves around the true story of Judge Francis Biddle – Attorney General for Franklin Roosevelt and judge at the Nuremberg Trials – and his relationship with a 25 year old secretary hired by his wife to help him write his memoirs as his memory is fading. Based on the author’s own experience in 1967-1968, it is a beautifully written piece of theatre, a funny, intelligent and warm account of a young Canadian girl from the Saskatchewan prairie and an old Philadelphia aristocrat “trying” to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life. By 1968, Judge Biddle was indeed trying. Very trying.
“Comic and touching.” – The New York Times
“Trying is a portrait of generational reconciliation. It is enormously bracing theatre.” – New York Daily News
“ Unquestionably a Pulitzer Prize contender.” – Chicago Sun Times
“Exquisitely literate, moving and compelling.” – Variety
“This is gonna rock! Be sure & see it, or die trying!” – San Juan Update
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