Red Herring, a Hilarious Black Comedy, at Laguna Playhouse
Laguna Playhouse (606 Laguna Canyon Rd. Laguna Beach, CA 92651)
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The last date listed for Red Herring was Saturday March 15, 2008 / 2:00pm.
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2 Goldstar Member Reviews
LB Hill
Fast paced, funny, touching, great set and lighting design. Versatile actors played a variety of roles, making each different character a believable fresh individual.Written on Mar 13 2008
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More Information About Red Herring
Quotes & Highlights
- "But the greatest pleasures of this production are found in the details and the way the performers deliver them." --Orange County Register
- "Red Herring has much fun with the Soviet-obsessed 1950s in a snappy staging at Laguna Playhouse" --Los Angeles Times
- “Red Herring looks and sounds terrific; there’s never a dull moment onstage…wildly funny and thoroughly crafty performances.” --OC Weekly
Description
<p>“Red Herring is a fable about marriage, but I didn't know that when I started. I thought I was writing a comic noir detective story,” says playwright Michael Hollinger. “Red Herring began years ago as a class exercise for one of my playwriting classes. I wrote a scene about a hard-boiled detective interviewing a belligerent landlady about one of her tenants, whose naked legs stuck out of the bathtub before them. I really liked this image, and the comic noir style, and they kept coming back over the years until I was ready to start the play in earnest. Since my detective character evoked the noir sensibility that burgeoned (at least in film) between the late 1940's and early 1950's, I decided to set my play in that period. Somehow, the title Red Herring came to mind. Since "red" evoked the Red Scares of the McCarthy era and "herring" evoked New England fisheries, I narrowed the period to the early 1950's and the setting to Boston.”</p> <p>“This play defies categorization in the ordinary way,” notes director Andrew Barnicle. “You could call it a political thriller farcical romantic drama—it has qualities from just about every genre. I like the idea that it is so unique. Parts of the play are hilarious and depend on the notion of people bumping into each other at the perfect time. This play progresses like a movie, it’s constantly moving with very little time between scenes for a transition. The actors play multiple roles, so they’ll go out through one door and come in through another in a completely different costume as a different character. While this is certainly challenging to stage, it’s also part of the fun.”</p> <p>Red Herring features six southern California-based actors: Traci L. Crouch, Brendan Ford, Kirsten Potter, DeeDee Rescher, Brett Ryback, and Tom Shelton.</p>