Listen in as Opportunity playwright Stanley Martin, director Michael Blatt, and cast members Yhá Mourhia Wright, Ashley E. Matthews, Luis E. Mora, & Jayson Kerr discuss mirrors of performers’ reality, universality in specificity, challenging body type stereotypes, finding a shared history from the subtext of the script, mining your dialogue in real conversations, representation not just in the theatre but in the cast and in the play, the beauty of this particular “opportunity,” and why despite it all, we love this mad business of the theatre.

“…it was important that these people were real people that everyone could relate to…if you mix a group of people from work, anywhere, and add lots of alcohol, and have a past, trouble’s about to stir. It’s just theatre people are a little more theatrical with it…”

The Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One-Act Play Festival 2019 presents

Opportunity

written by Stanley Martin

thru March 23, 2019

Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios

tickets: $25 in advance via TheRiantTheatre.com, (or $27 at the door, cash only)

photos by Van Dirk Fisher