Kiss – a lesson in structure
During this time of war in Syria, Guillermo Calderón presents a show where a US theater is producing a melodrama they found that was written by a Syrian playwright, then brings her in by phone for a Q&A with the actors and the audience. The play that the theater company then finishes takes a very different turn from the melodrama they had interpreted, now that they have context into life in Syria. I think the structure of this play works cleverly to show what we in the US know and don’t know from our shielded point of reference.