The Closeness of the Horizon: Summer of '69 Friendship Drama at Odyssey Theatre
Odyssey Theatre (2055 S Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025)
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The last date listed for The Closeness of the Horizon was Sunday June 24, 2012 / 2:00pm.
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$3 parking at the theater. A good deal.
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Theater was cool upon arrival, but comfortable during performance
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Bathroom was clean.
26 Goldstar Member Reviews
Elisabeth Clark
Written on Jun 25 2012This was one of the best performances I've seen at the Odyssey in quite some time. The play is very interesting as it explored the high school and middle-aged relationships among the three men. All of the actors were excellent, and I esp. like the one who played Paul. We seldom see portrayed the boy-jock closeness of men nor their middle-aged changes in affiliations. The two wives, although their parts were smaller, were pivotal to the development of the plot(s) and both were grand in their roles. The direction moved things along at the right pace as the confusions of the "now" were slowly revealed by the "then" episodes. Innovative!
Male, born 1950
Written on Jun 25 2012Excellent production. Well written, well acted. Too bad for everybody that our performance was the final one. If this play returns, I fully recommend it to all.
Goldstar Member
Written on Jun 25 2012The acting was superb and the story engaging. Kudos to the whole production.
Markster
Written on Jun 25 2012All three of us in my group did not connect with the characters enough to care anything about them from beginning to end.
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Quotes & Highlights
- "Deftly directed by Darin Anthony ... Hirsch is a glib practionerwhose characters seem completely organic and of the moment." --Los Angeles Times
- "Perhaps the Best New Work of the Year" --alittlenightmusing.com
- [A] beautifully nuanced production ... Engrossingly captures the emotions underlying midlife masculinity ... Full of mature humor ... The performances possess a sense of powerfully truthful detail.” --LA Weekly (Go!)
- “Well-written and well-acted, Closeness is a masterful twist on the midlife crisis … definitely a play to see.” --LA Splash
- "One of our finest Los Angeles playwrights, Richard Martin Hirsch is also one of the least easily pigeonholed, as each new work reveals an unexpected something up the writer’s sleeve. In The Closeness of the Horizon, Hirsch has taken real-life events, both those shared with his fellow Boomers and those of a more personal nature, and created a work of fiction that resonates with the ring of truth." —StageSceneLA.com
Description
It was the Summer of '69 and on the same day that Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, three teenaged friends from LA's west side set-out on a six-week tour to see the USA and to find high school and college gyms where they could drum up pick-up games of basketball. The shoes were strictly Converse or maybe Adidas...and the music on the VW bus’ radio was strictly Top 40. But the world would never be more open to possibilities.
Only now, some two and a half decades later, the world is different and events have transpired that have left one of the three overcome with a burning need to know why the relationship with his former best friend inexplicably faded over the years.
So begins a new and different sort of journey for Paul Lewin - incited by memories and music from his past - as he is forced to confront the very fragile nature of friendship...and reconcile what his world once was with the place it has now become.