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by Katja Klopfer
'Orange Flower Water' by Craig Wright presented by the New Century Theatre, directed vy Allison Narver
Orange Flower Wate is a very topical, intense, intimate play about two marriages set around and in a single bed.
It starts of with one of the wive's monologue to her beloved husband of too many years, then decends into sexual, intimate, brutally honest drama, as we find out that her husband never really loved her, and that he wants to escape with the wife of another. Secretly he had been in love with that other for many years, or so he thinks.
The unfaithful couple explore their true, conflicted and sexual feelings for each other. Eventually it all comes to light as their partners find out and deal with the affair. It seems all partners have been disillusioned, and become just plain complacent with their relationships. Kids activities and daily life have killed the romance and their feelings for each other.
The affair is clearly an escape with no happy ending, desperate for new beginnings, for new dreams, for true happiness they all handle the situation very differently.
Stellar performances are delivered by all four actors and many emotional, heart wrenching, sexually explicit scenes make it hard not to get too involved oneself.
It definitely is thought-provoking and stirs many emotions within the audience in this small, intimate setting.
Cast:
Hans Altwies
Besty Schwartz
Jennifer Lee Taylor
Ray Gonzales
Directed by:
Allison Narver
Orange Flower Water runs June 24th - July 20th. 2009, at ACT's Bullit Theater
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