{"id":253813,"date":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/definition-of-truth\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:00:00","slug":"definition-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/definition-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Definici\u00f3n de verdad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Jean Lowerison | Revisi\u00f3n de teatro<\/p>\n

Princeton freshmen Amber (Emily Shain) and Tom (DeLeon Dallas) try to navigate the sometimes-treacherous unknown waters of becoming a college student in Anna Ziegler\u2019s riveting two-actor play \u201cActually,\u201d playing through Nov. 4 at San Diego Repertory Theatre.<\/p>\n

Amber is white, Jewish, talkative and unused to being the center of anyone\u2019s attention. Tom is African-American, a budding musician and a bit of a loner, anxious to succeed.<\/p>\n

What they both discover is that \u2014 at least in this first week \u2014 students drink. A lot. Wanting to fit in, they go along. And on one of those drunken nights, they end up in bed together.<\/p>\n

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(l to r) Amber (Emily Shain) and Tom (DeLeon Dallas), find themselves embroiled in a situation that pits them against each other in a contest in which everybody loses. (Photo courtesy of Jim Carmody)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What did or didn\u2019t happen there is the crux of the play, as a Title IX violation is filed, followed by the obligatory and embarrassing \u201cinvestigation\u201d to determine consent, guilt and what really constitutes \u201cpreponderance of evidence\u201d (the standard used in Title IX).<\/p>\n

The nature (and definition) of truth are also under discussion here. What really happened? Was it deliberate assault, misunderstanding, or a natural outgrowth of Tom and Amber\u2019s newly (if drunkenly) discovered attraction for each other? If their recollections don\u2019t jibe, how do we determine which is right?<\/p>\n

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(l to r) Amber (Emily Shain) and Tom (DeLeon Dallas) at rehearsal together (Photo courtesy of Peggy Ryan)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is heavy and very timely stuff, deftly handled by Ziegler, who structures the piece as a series of conversations. The difference here is that the actors often directly talk to us, the audience, as if we were friends.<\/p>\n

This almost seems like a hometown production, with the director and both actors graduates of UCSD\u2019s graduate theater program.<\/p>\n

The play is well served by Director Jesca Prudencio, who is now Head of Directing at SDSU. Prudencio \u2014 also a choreographer \u2014 has the actors move almost like dancers. It\u2019s a brilliant stroke.<\/p>\n

\"DefinitionShain and Dallas are perfectly cast as students who find themselves embroiled in a situation that pits them against each other in a contest in which everybody loses. Both come across as utterly honest, confused and, in the end, possibly damaged.<\/p>\n

Lighting and sound direction (Chris Rynne and Melanie Chen Cole, respectively) not only add to the atmosphere, but seem almost like characters themselves.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss this funny, sad and utterly engaging play.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jean Lowerison es miembro desde hace mucho tiempo del C\u00edrculo de Cr\u00edticos de Teatro de San Diego y puede ser contactada en infodame@cox.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Jean Lowerison | Theater Review Princeton freshmen Amber (Emily Shain) and Tom (DeLeon Dallas) try to navigate the sometimes-treacherous unknown waters of becoming a college student in Anna Ziegler\u2019s riveting two-actor play \u201cActually,\u201d playing through Nov. 4 at San Diego Repertory Theatre.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":919,"featured_media":253814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Definition of truth","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253813","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\/919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}