For the eighth entry in its Off The Page series of monthly staged readings, Sierra Madre Playhouse will present The Quality of Life.
From award-winning writer Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance, Looking for Normal) comes this “magnetic work of theater” (The San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, honesty and humor. Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest are struggling to keep their lives intact after the loss of their daughter. Dinah is compelled to reconnect with her left-leaning cousins in Northern California who’re going through their own trials. Jeannette and Neil have lost their home to a wildfire and Neil has been battling illness. However they seem to have accepted their situation with astounding good humor, living in a yurt on their burn site and celebrating life with hits of pot and glasses of good red wine. Bill and Dinah are both moved and perplexed by their cousins’ remarkable equanimity. Still, the two couples are headed for a clash.
“Remarkable and completely engrossing.”—TheaterMania
Gary Lee Reed directs a cast that includes Joe Colligan, D.J. Harner, Bonnie Bailey Reed and Gary Lee Reed.
Off The Page series curator: Debra J. Harner. Sierra Madre Playhouse artistic director: Christian Lebano. Managing director: Estelle Campbell.
Off the Page Series’ The Quality of Life will be held Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. Admission to The Quality of Life is free. Donations are accepted. Reservations are not required. To get tickets or for more information, visit www.sierramadreplayhouse.org or call (626) 355-4318.
Sierra Madre Playhouse is located at 87 W. Sierra Madre, Blvd., Sierra Madre. This is just east of Pasadena. There is ample free parking behind the theatre.
