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Explosive, Award-Winning Play Short Eyes at LATC

The Los Angeles Theatre Center (514 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90013)
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For the first time in a decade, Miguel Pinero's award-winning play Short Eyes will be produced in Los Angeles. Julian Acosta directs the production by the Urban Theatre Movement and the Latino Theater Company. Written while the playwright was serving his sentence at Sing Sing prison for armed robbery, Short Eyes charts the racial, sexual and personal politics of a group of inmates at an unnamed house of detention in New York City. The population of the institution is an assembly of racially and ethnically divided cliques in an internally constructed society with its own rules and boundaries, peopled with violent felons, thieves and killers. Into their society comes a new prisoner, a middle-class white man named Clark, accused of child rape and nicknamed "short eyes," the term used by prisoners to brand child molesters. The play debuted at the Riverside Church, moved Off-Broadway in 1974 to The Public Theatre in New York City and to Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater to critical acclaim including six Tony Award nominations, the New York Critics Circle Award and an Obie Award for the Best Play of the Year.

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The last date listed for Short Eyes was Sunday March 18, 2012 / 7:00pm.

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This is my second time coming to the play. The actors really brought it and didn't hold back. I am going for the last show Dec 11.
Written on Nov 28 2011

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Very enjoyable night of theater. The material is a little dated, but well executed,
Written on Feb 20 2012

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Simply amazing. I am a huge fan of Pinero. I have read the play and seen the movie. Your actors were amazing. Ice, had me laughing. This is a must. I am returning the following week. I bought my ex-wife a ticket and I will be going to the the showing.
Written on Nov 22 2011

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Not an enjoyable subject but very well done. Very intense.
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http://thelatc.org/2011/shows/shorteyes/

Quotes & Highlights

  • "Profane, funny, and packed with more crotch-grabbing than vintage Madonna, the current revival of Miguel Piñero’s prison drama Short Eyes at the Los Angeles Theatre Center burns with vivid life." --Los Angeles Times
  • "Fortunately, director Julian Acosta's riveting and muscular revival ... matches Piñero's indictment of contemporary social savagery blow for blow with some of the finest ensemble work of recent memory." --LA Weekly
  • "Co-produced by the Latino Theater Company and Urban Theatre Movement, this exciting production is dark, exhilarating, and utterly glorious." --LAist  
  • "The daring production is infused with bravura performances and a crackling atmosphere, punctuated by ironic humor and suspense." --Back Stage
  • "[Pinero] offers a brutal glimpse of a brutal world, with hardly any punches pulled. Yet his staging doesn’t become bogged down in the banality of brutality. The tension in the room explodes often, with crackling dramatic urgency." --LA Stage Times

Description

Julian Acosta directs the Urban Theatre Movement cast of Short Eyes. A member of the famed LAByrinth Theater Company in New York, he appeared there in multiple productions with them as well as in Austria and Germany in Peter Sellars’ mounting of Othello (with Philip Seymour Hoffman). Locally, he’s appeared at South Coast Repertory in Anna in the Tropics and in Lovers and Executioners, for which he received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination. Born in Puerto Rico, he received his Master’s Degree from Rutgers University.

The cast of Short Eyes includes  Miguel Amenyinu, Carl Crudup, Cris D’Annunzio, Daryl Anthony Harper, Matthew Jaeger, Benny Nieves, Jason Olazabal, Matias Ponce, Mark Rolston, Donte Wince and Daniel Zornes.