1951-2006 Review by ACCESSIBLY LIVE OFF-LINE
Donald Freed’s 1951-2006, a play about two people living in the same New York City brownstone for over a half century, makes its world premier at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. The play opens in late ’51. Meg (Debra De Leo), an Irish Catholic young lady from Chicago, moves into her apartment set in a turn of the century era walk up on Manhattan’s upper east side. She meets her neighbor David (Michael Matthys), a man who is wheelchair... Read More
LA Times Theater review: ’1951-2006′ at Los Angeles Theatre Center
May 21, 2010 | 6:00 am Politics and storytelling have always been inseparable for activist-writer Donald Freed, and his new play “1951-2006″ remains true to form. Directed by the author under the auspices of LATC’s resident Latino Theatre Company, the show spans five decades of American history as reflected in the romance between neighbors in a tawdry Manhattan brownstone. Sparks of wit fly fast and furious when embittered... Read More
LA Weekly’s Review of ’1951-2006′
NEW REVIEW GO 1951-2006 Photo by Brooks Wachtel Writer-director Donald Freed’s romance about a military veteran, Dave (Michael Matthys), who, in 1951, finds himself confined to a wheelchair in a grubby fourth-floor New York City walk-up, and the woman, Meg (Debra De Liso), who moves in across the hall. François-Pierre Couture’s set shows the hallway with its grimy tile floor and slats emerging through the edges of the cement walls,... Read More
