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readers’ theatre presents solo ‘wrecks’ By War re n Gre e nwood All the lovers … and all the love that was between them …was not a mistake. – Garrison Keillor
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Prime Pinot Noirs from California Northside Staff Tasters: Dave Pohl, ed., Dana Malley, Jason Wentworth, Mark Britten, & Robert Bradley While France’s Burgundy region is the home of the world’s finest Pinot Noir wines, it is sadly increasingly difficult to find truly compelling bottles of red Burgundy for under $30. More and more, Pinot Noir aficionados must look to the New World for characterful Pinot Noir in the $20-$30 price range. The cooler regions of California, Oregon, and New Zealand are the places to which many now turn in their search for Pinot Noir value. Recently, the staff at Northside Wine & Spirits blind tasted 26 Pinot Noirs from California, Oregon, the Finger Lakes region, and New Zealand, all priced under $30. While there were fine examples from each locale, the top two wines of the tasting hailed from California. In fact each of the staff ’s top picks come from regions in California that have become associated with the production of quality Pinot. The top wine of the tasting was the Roth Estate 2012 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($25). The Sonoma Coast, as the name implies, runs along Sonoma
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a surprise ending—perhaps shocking to some. A reviewer for The New York Times wrote of the play: “Whether you gasp or merely sigh wearily will depend on your familiarity with, and fondness for, the prolific Mr. LaBute’s bleak moral vision of humankind (Gasp or sigh, you’re still likely to think, ‘Well, he’s done it again.’)” I’m not entirely sure about that “bleak moral vision of humankind” stuff, though. I found Wrecks an exhilarating first person storytelling account of the divine madness of love.
here is an astonishing amount of theatre here in Ithaca, for such a small city: the Hangar Theatre, the Kitchen Theatre, the Ithaca College Theatre Arts Department, the Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Cornell Melodramatics Theatre Company, the Wolf ’s Mouth Theatre Company, the Civic Ensemble, the Homecoming Players, the Ithaca Shakespeare Company … and, for the last five years, The Readers’ Theatre of Ithaca. The Readers’ Theatre will be presenting the one-person play Wrecks (off-book) at Cinemapolis with music by Hank Roberts and Phonetix, and a 15-minute on-screen Skype interview with the playwright Neil LaBute. Wrecks stars Chris Nickerson, and is directed by The Readers’ Theatre Artistic Director Anne Marie Cummings. Chris Nickerson of Wrecks, which opens Friday at Cinemapolis. I attended a press (photo provided) preview of the play on a full moon November night at the West Hill Indeed, a critic named Linda Winer home of the director. for Newsday wrote: “Wrecks is bound Steven Spielberg once said that one to and identified by its shock value, should be able to tell the story of a film in but it must also be cherished for the 25 words. Assuming this holds true for a moment-by-moment pleasure of its play, the 25-word scenario for Wrecks is: A man tells the story of the big wild love of his masterly portraiture.” She also called it an “enormously moving love story.” I think she life—that of his recently departed wife. is dead-on in both cases. The playwright, Neil LaBute, uses a Chris Nickerson, a very accomplished wondrous, strange technique to do this. actor in theatre, television and film, The man, a successful businessman named Edward Carr, talks directly to the audience, portrays the character Edward Carr. He is marvelous in the role. He is required to while somehow observing the funeral single-handedly carry the 80-minute play. proceedings for his wife … including And he pulls it off. I was riveted the entire observing himself. I liked this odd structure very much. It hour and 20 minutes. And it is fascinating that the play is seemed like something Neil Gaiman would do in a fantasy story, a sort of Rod Serling— so engrossing when one considers how stripped down and minimalist it is – one magic realism touch. actor and a handful of props. It is a tribute Carr’s story is given an added to the power of human storytelling. valedictory poignancy in that he has lung And so, in conclusion, if the Reader cancer, and is going to die himself in loves the art of theatre, I think it would be about eight months. Carr tells the story worth catching this engaging, one-person of how he met his wife Mary Josephine, minimalist production. • how they created a successful business together (Carr’s Cars), raised a family, and The Readers Theatre of Ithaca will stage maintained a transcendent life-long love Wrecks at Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St., affair. Ithaca, Friday to Sunday, Nov. 21 to 23. They also kept secrets. Both husband Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m., and wife maintained two extraordinary Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at secrets. www.thereaderstheatre.com. And I might mention that the play has