Well, let’s see.
The last time there was a new production of ‘Pinky,’ a full production, anyway — there have been some colleges that have used scenes from the play, with our permission — it was 2017, and it was a three-weekend production at Belrose Theater in San Rafael, California. Since then, the playwright has written two new plays (‘Drumming With Anubis,’ which had its world premiere at Left Edge Theatre in Santa Rosa, and ‘Galatea,’ which was to have debuted on March 20, 2020 at Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park, CA, but was called off on March 13 due to a certain global pandemic. ‘Drumming with Anubis’ had a live Zoom production in the summer of 2020, presented by New York City’s Ted Wold Productions.
With so much theater taking to Zoom and other online platforms, small cast plays are (no surprise) suddenly highly attractive, and ‘Pinky’ fits the bill — especially if a theater company can find two actors who are already in each other’s bubble. When Sonoma Arts Live, in Sonoma, CA, asked married actors Julianne and Mark Bradbury to suggest a two-hander they’d be interested in performing together, they suggested ‘Pinky,’ and by a delightful cohesion of proximities, North Bay director-actor Larry Williams was A. available, and B. had actually appeared as one of the two characters in the Belrose Theater production on 2017 (alternating with actor Jeffrey Weissman, both playing opposite of Melissa Claire. The play was produced by Marin Onstage and was directed by Carl Jordan. So, Larry Williams was a perfect choice to take the reins of Sonoma Arts Live’s first full Zoom production.
The play will be performed over two weekends, presented live from the Santa Rosa livingroom of the Bradburys, beginning Friday, February 12, and running Fridays through Saturdays until February 21. All performances will be at 8 p.m.
Details can be found at Sonoma Arts Live’s website (sonomaartslive.org, sometime soon, or on the Sonoma Arts Live Facebook page). The play will be presented for free, but donations to SAL are encouraged and much appreciated.
We will be adding updates here as we get them.
If you are fan of ‘Pinky,’ the play, you will not want to miss this one-of-a-kind Valentine’s weekend show.
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