LINK TO 'TIES'
posted by James Reel
No, I’m not on vacation; I’m one of the dozens of people hereabouts felled by the flu. (I dutifully got a flu shot in November, but it was apparently for the wrong strain.) Before succumbing, I did manage to catch a play for review in today’s Tucson Weekly:
Whose story is it, anyway? Elizabeth Diggs' Close Ties is billed as a drama about a family coming to grips with how to deal with its increasingly senile matriarch. Eight characters vie for prominence in this 1981 work, presented by Catalina Players; some must inevitably be nudged aside by a few others whose personalities and conflicts command our attention--and the author's.Read the rest here. And then wash your hands.
So which characters take possession of this story? The answer is a bit surprising, but it's the natural result of Diggs' own interests, and certain strengths of casting in the local production.
