The poet T.S. Eliot struggles to reconcile his homosexuality with societal, professional and religious restrictions. A musical taking place in a Gatsby inspired early Twentieth Century London and within Eliot’s imagination, populated by characters from his writing, each offering different advice.
A writer exposes and explores Emily Dickinson’s struggles with lesbian love, BDSM, insanity, and incest. But as he gazes at the monsters in the abyss, he finds that the abyss is gazing back at him, exposing his own dark secrets and driving him to suicide.
Ezra Pound was the single greatest contributor to the growth of literature and literary celebrities in the Twentieth Century. He was also a Fascism supporter, broadcasting anti-war and anti-Semitic rhetoric during WWII. Should we be measured by our best moments, or our worst?
In Britain, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (N.I.C.E.) sets up guidelines about who should live and who should die for terminal patients. What happens when they decide your comatose mother must die? What starts out as a debate about issues of nationalized health care quickly turns into a debate about the value of human life. Four siblings are forced to confront death and their own inner demons.
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…manages to achieve moments of absolute breathtaking magic. …shouldn’t be missed.
Must See. You may not be lucky enough to see the enigmatic Dickinson [because all] performances are sold out. However, I would still call the Theatre to see if you can get in!
…It’s a highly recommended outing.
Author Roetzheim doesn’t shy away from portraying Pound as an unsympathetic, opinionated racist as well as anti-Semitic…Yet when Pound goes on a tirade about American economic policy and profit motive behind the banking industry, his ideas sound clear-headed and refreshingly current.
The Emily Dickinson presented in William Roetzheim’s Dickinson is nothing like the woman they teach about in school, and thank goodness for that. …Part of the beauty of Roetzheim’s play is that it spins out Emily’s secrets bit by bit, and always with pieces of her work backing up the hypotheses. He does so in a very theatrical style that keeps the audience interested in the way that a lecture never would.
After Pound and various other characters, all of them played by Jeff Berg, have their say, the audience renders its verdict by flashing the cards. It’s an interesting conceit…Pound in essence shapes up as a dialectic examining the role of the artist in relation to his art and society as a whole.
What patrons witness is a play as puzzling, frustrating and fragmented, and every bit as fascinating as the poet, her life and her poetry. It’s an unsettling evening and that is the point.
Regina grew up in Jamul and started her dancing career at Ann Russell (now Jamul School of Performing Arts). She has studied at UCI, California Ballet and the Academy of Performing Arts, where she danced on scholarship. She has taught and performed throughout San Diego, including her role as the Ice Princess in The Legend of the Ice Princess at Viejass.
Regina started American International Theater, at the age of 16 and has put on many productions in San Diego, Los Angeles and New York. She is very passionate about the arts and loves teaching and sharing that passion with others.
William is an award winning poet and playwright, and a serial entrepreneur who has built—and sold—multiple businesses in the tech world over the last three decades.
He’s a former Navy pilot, a world-class gymnast, and an engineer.
He’s a father and a grandfather and the owner and very active operator of the publishing company Level 4 Press, which, incidentally, requires a surprising number of the aforementioned skills.
