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Heard by director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (San Diego Critics Circle\u2019s 2015 Director of the Year Award) in the Globe\u2019s Powers New Voices Festival in 2014, the play piqued her interest and Sonnenberg apparently begged the powers that be to grant Moxie the rights to produce the play, which she intended to direct.<\/p>\n
The answer was yes, but at The Old Globe. This is Sonnenberg\u2019s Old Globe directorial debut. She co-founded Moxie in 2005 and serves as the esteemed company\u2019s artistic director.<\/p>\n The April 13 opening was well attended and the response was enthusiastic.<\/p>\n Part of a trilogy of plays about Detroit, the play concerns three longtime co-workers at an automotive-related factory where sheet metal is \u201cstamped\u201d into shapes such as doors and hoods for auto manufacture. The time is 2008, when industry closures were just beginning.<\/p>\n Reggie, the foreman (Brian Marable), knows the plant is closing by the end of the year and confides in Faye (Tonye Patano, a Craig Noel Award-winner in \u201cRuined\u201d at La Jolla Playhouse), the worker with the most longevity, with whom he shares an almost familial relationship of many years.<\/p>\n Faye was instrumental in getting Reggie the white-collar job, and he now has a house, a family and a college-bound daughter. Faye, one year from fully vested retirement, is sworn not to tell the others.<\/p>\n She is a very loving 60-something lesbian who acts as confidante to the two younger employees, Shanita (Rachel Nicks) and Dez (Amari Cheatom).<\/p>\n Though a bit of a hustler, Dez is basically a good man and sincerely loves Shanita, who is pregnant with her first child (Dez is not the father).<\/p>\n As time goes by, he garners a lot of suspicion over thefts that begin to occur at the plant as rumors of closing spread. The suspense relies on intricate dynamics between the characters as the story unfolds.<\/p>\n It\u2019s more an affirmation of what was suspected all along. These relationships run far more deeply than we first imagined.<\/p>\n Tim Mackabee\u2019s scenic design is redolent of rundown break rooms everywhere, flanked on two sides counters with lockers underneath, a microwave and mini fridge on one side, and a coffeepot on the other.<\/p>\n Sherrice Mojgani\u2019s lighting design creates the feel of Midwestern winter, and Lindsay Jones\u2019 sound design is a clever mix of factory sounds and percussive music.<\/p>\n \u2014Charlene Baldridge has been writing about the arts since 1979. Follow her blog at charlenecriticism.blogspot.com<\/a> o llegar a ella en <\/em>charb81@gmail.com<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charlene Baldridge |\u00a0Theater Review<\/p>","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":251537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"\u2018Skeleton Crew\u2019 shines","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u2018Skeleton](\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/from-left-Amari-Cheatom-as-Dez-Brian-Marable-as-Reggie-Tonye-Patano-as-Faye-and-Rachel-Nicks-as-Shanita.jpg\")
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The actors\u2019 performances are well developed, each creating a character of individual integrity, with dimension and human interest. There are secrets to be revealed, and the last of them, stunning as it is, comes as no surprise to those who have listened carefully.<\/p>\n