Tickets are already starting to disappear for Salt Lake Acting Company’s production of “Too Much Memory,” which is set to run Feb. 3 through Feb. 28. The play, which calls itself “an adaptation of an adaptation of a translation” of the Greek tragedy “Antigone,” takes on the very serious issue of the importance of speaking out against injustice.
“We've just come out of a groundswell of political activism demanding change. We're finding out it isn't so simple, it takes speaking up over and over,” said Meg Gibson, one of the authors of the play who’s also directing the SLAC production. “I find that where ever and when ever audiences experience ‘Too Much Memory,’ the play mirrors the nuance of our current landscape."
Thankfully, it tackles the concept with a light, intelligent touch, genuinely exploring all the emotions and consequences of taking a stand without tossing an anvil on the audience’s heads. As the Chorus puts it in the show’s introduction:
“A director can take a Greek play and have people come on riding motorcycles, come in on motorized scenery. We don’t have that kind of room. There’s a hundred ways in which you can bring something into the present. We have that freedom, but like I said, in today’s world, things being what they are, I think we also have an obligation. To speak up.”
If this sounds like your kind of play, you shouldn’t take too long to grab your seats. The Feb. 5 performance has already been sold out, and tickets for Feb. 7,11,13 and 14 are already limited.
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