In Far East, 1950s couples are beset by cultural demons common to the time. With echoes of Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon , it's the story of an American sailor going to a foreign country and entering into a romantic liaison with a (gasp) foreigner. Before you stifle a yawn...
produced by On the Verge theater in association with Alta Arts., 1950s couples are beset by cultural demons common to the time. With echoes ofit's the story of an American sailor going to a foreign country and entering into a romantic liaison with a foreigner.
"The play is about a group of Americans in the 1950s on an American naval base in Japan and it follows mainly one character who is young who arrives there, rather fresh-faced, wanting adventure, open to the world. What he encounters is a lot of other Americans who are a little more jaded," Lenert says.
As Sparky tries to break away from the cultural prejudices and do something different, Lenert says, he's encountering systems and people who are trying to drag him back into those prejudiced rules of society, she says. "Also she's lived a more independent life and also she's not feeling connected to her husband anymore and is struggling with that. So what you get in the play is this interesting dynamic where sometimes it feels like I'm being [Sparky's] older sister then later on you get an attraction between them so that becomes a whole other layer of tension.""These characters are swimming in the waters of the 1950s. These were my grandparents.
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