{"id":2582,"date":"2015-07-09T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:32:09","slug":"georama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"Georama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/georama_program_graphic_-_mandi_maxwell_and_kevin_p._gabel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/georama_program_graphic_-_mandi_maxwell_and_kevin_p._gabel.jpg\" alt=\"georama_program_graphic_-_mandi_maxwell_and_kevin_p._gabel\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/georama_program_graphic_-_mandi_maxwell_and_kevin_p._gabel.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/georama_program_graphic_-_mandi_maxwell_and_kevin_p._gabel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Empty Sea Company brings Nova Scotia-based playwright Jackie Torrens\u2019 2002 play <em>Georama<\/em> to the<a href=\"http:\/\/fringetoronto.com\"> Toronto Fringe Festival<\/a>, where it plays until July 11, 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Georama<\/em> is a poignant exploration of privilege and how, often, those who have it will do everything in their power to hold on to it, even after it is revealed that it less something they are entitled to have, but rather something arbitrary that has been thrust, randomly, upon them by an undiscerning universe. Torrens offers us two best friends, Hal Smyth and Sal Smith, who were born, identical healthy babies full of promise, at the same hospital on the same day at nearly the exact same moment. They were even delivered by the same doctor. Yet one went on to live a life as a white, affluent male and the other as a white, less affluent female. They grew up as best friends, but as adults, the disparity between the way they perceive the world, coloured, of course, by their experiences in it, is vast. Then, suddenly, when an old secret is revealed, Hal and Sal\u2019s friendship, and their self-constructed understanding of the world and their place in it, is blown to smithereens. It is up to us, the audience, to seek to grapple with a solution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The exploration of gender politics and classism comes alive in this production, directed by Arne MacPherson and featuring Kevin P. Gabel and Mandi Maxwell. The biggest challenge is that MacPherson and Maxwell haven\u2019t created Hal and Sal to be three dimensional characters grounded in realism, nor do we get a real sense of their friendship and the care, history and love they share with one another, which makes it difficult for the audience to care about helping these two find their way back together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Torrens\u2019 plot in <em>Georama<\/em>, upon which she has built a compelling and insightful political argument, hinges on an unlikely coincidence, which means that Hal and Sal have to be able to convince the audience that they are not just archetypes to be dismissed, but people who live within the same social constructs as all of us, trying to better understand agency and responsibility and privilege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TWISI FRINGE RATING:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5_Star_Rating_System_3_and_a_half_stars-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5_Star_Rating_System_3_and_a_half_stars-11.png\" alt=\"5_Star_Rating_System_3_and_a_half_stars-1\" width=\"140\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Georama<\/em> plays at the Factory Theatre Studio (125 Bathurst Street) as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>show times<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 09 at 05:15 PM \u00a0<a class=\"button small\" href=\"https:\/\/tff.tickets.red61.com\/listprices.php?performanceId=1066:2189\">buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 10 at 07:30 PM \u00a0<a class=\"button small\" href=\"https:\/\/tff.tickets.red61.com\/listprices.php?performanceId=1066:2190\">buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 11 at 11:00 PM \u00a0<a class=\"button small\" href=\"https:\/\/tff.tickets.red61.com\/listprices.php?performanceId=1066:2191\">buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty Sea Company brings Nova Scotia-based playwright Jackie Torrens\u2019 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[4778,4777,4734,3491,4779,4780,3747,4245],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-arne-macpherson","tag-empty-sea-company","tag-factory-theatre-studio","tag-jackie-torrens","tag-kevin-p-gabel","tag-mandi-maxwell","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fringe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Georama - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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