Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Custom Stage @ Off-Market, Ste. 205 (965 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103)
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The last date listed for Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance was Saturday March 14, 2009 / 8:00pm.
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Small space but nice.
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They also sell big paper cups of wine for $3. Good deal!
37 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Radha Narayan
Good performance by all the actors, but the play just didn't do it for me. It touches on the possibility of several interesting conflicts without exploring any of them well, and the characters are both far too one-dimensional and unable to garner any sympathy from the audience. Why is everyone so unhappy? Why don't they do something about it? Why are you constantly filled with the urge to shake some sense into them?Written on Mar 06 2009
The only character I found remotely likable was the drunk sister, and she didn't have enough good lines.
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Lanny
Edward Albee is, arguably, America's greatest living playwright, and Balance is one of his finest plays. If you have never seen it, you must. If you have seen it, perhaps the AFT version or even the celebrated Lincoln Center revival, you may want to pass. I am a huge fan of Elaine Stritch, who has been called the last first lady of the American theatre, and her performance as Claire is burned into my memory. As admirable as Shelley Lynn Johnson's performance is, I could not shake the Stritch spectre. The announced running time for Acts I and II was 80 minutes, but clocked out as 90 minutes in actuality, and by the end of Act III only 10 people remained in the audience the night I was there. Still, I love this play, and everyone did their damnedest to make it work.Written on Feb 27 2009
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regan342
I was hesitant at first to see this production, since I love Edward Albee, and was worried it couldn't live up to what I had pictured. But this theatre company surpassed all my expectations. The stage was perfect, the actors were engrossing, and the intimate theatre drew you in all the more.Written on Mar 09 2009
I brought a friend with me, who didn't know Albee's work, and every few minutes he couldn't help but whisper, "I LOVE this!"
truly the best production i've seen in a very long time.
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More Information About Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance
Quotes & Highlights
- “Custom Made reminds theater audiences of San Francisco’s busy, excellent small-theater days... Albee mixes humor, suspense and pathos superbly.” --San Francisco Examiner
- "...a productive mix of unexpected laughs and slowly unsettling situations that build nicely to a slow-dawning, teasingly ambiguous epiphany." --San Francisco Bay Guardian, Recommended
Description
<p>Albee's remarkable, ageless play gives no easy answers, but within the bite, wit and unexpected twists and turns of this family in crisis we are treated to a masterpiece of modern drama. Themes of loss, love, family and failure are nothing new to Albee, but in A Delicate Balance they converge in a frightening roller-coaster ride that dissembles the promise of the American dream.</p> <p>Directed by Shotgun company member, and Custom Made actress, Katja Rivera, and featuring company members Leah S. Abrams (The Heidi Chronicles) and AJ Davenport (Slavs!), returning actress Shelley Lynn Johnson (Assassins, Finding the Sun), and introducing new Custom Made players Jean Forseman, Stuart Hall and Dennis McIntyre, A Delicate Balance is a theatrical experience you will not soon forget.</p>
About the Ticket Supplier: Custom Made Theatre Co.
The Custom Made Theatre Co. is an award-winning San Francisco-based not-for-profit theatre dedicated to ensemble-based, socially relevant productions. Custom Made is the managing company of the Gough Street Playhouse, where they present a five play season, along with numerous readings, workshops and classes. In 2010, Custom Made received seven Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle nominations, including Best Production for A Delicate Balance and Best Musical for Cotton Patch Gospel. Most recently, Custom Made produced the Bay Area Premiere of Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter and the sold-out hit rethinking of The Diary of Anne Frank.