Stefanie Zadravec http://szadravec.com/blog Playwright Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:15:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “The Brilliantly Cathartic Honey Brown Eyes” http://szadravec.com/blog/2011/09/29/the-brilliantly-cathartic-honey-brown-eyes/ http://szadravec.com/blog/2011/09/29/the-brilliantly-cathartic-honey-brown-eyes/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:35:36 +0000 Stefanie http://szadravec.com/blog/?p=372 Charles Kruger’s review of Honey Brown Eyes in the Bay Area Theatre Examiner is probably one of my favorite to date. He completely got what I was going for with the play. Many thanks to the San Francisco Playhouse for executing such fine work. Here’s my favorite part of his review:

“I, personally, found this painful yet fascinating to watch. You see, I have worked teaching incarcerated juvenile gang members and I recognized my students in his performance. I have taught young people guilty of brutal murders, rapes and home invasions whom I nevertheless knew as friendly, engaged teenaged boys. Like Dragan, they are simultaneously monsters and innocent kids. I have seen them struggle with these conflicting roles.

Watching this portrayal of a Bosnian soldier, I realized I was not watching something past and foreign: I was watching us, today, here and now. This was not a monster. This could be our own child. The playwright brings this home with surprising effect by the presence of a television on the table that plays American sitcoms. We cannot escape the truth that we are watching ourselves.”

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We have an amazing, amazing cast and I cannot wait to get started. Thank you Playwrights Realm!

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I’ll be there from July 8-24, 2011 with these amazing writers: Lisa Dillman, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Brian Quirk, as well as John Yearly and Lauren Yee, who are probably surprised and delighted that they’re not listed last for once!

Here’s the full press release from broadwayworld.com.

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