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Jun 11, 2015 · For their first full-length production and to close out their ambitious first season, Rainbow Theatre Project has chosen as sweet a play about the harsh life of aging hookers as there ever was. Back in 1981, her Pulitzer Prize years ahead of her, Paula Vogel introduced a group of women in “the life” facing their twilight of their years.
Vogel describes The Oldest Profession as her only pattern play. This means a structure which moves a story forward through variations on a particular situation or experience -- we have six scenes, each beginning on the park bench and updating us on the five shady ladies' situation.
Aug 11, 2021 · It refers to the saying that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession—originated by Rudyard Kipling—but also to the aging of its characters. The play has no time for titillating fantasies.
As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.
Jan 29, 2023 · Head Trick Theatre’s captivating, well-acted production of Karel Čapek’s unsettling play, ‘R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots),’ tackles the age-old question, “What happens when ...
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Apr 1, 2018 · The Oldest Profession runs through April 14, 2017, at 8 pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at convergence-continuum’s artistic home, The Liminis, at 2438 Scranton Rd. in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. For information and reservations call 216-687-0074 or click here.
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Nov 4, 2019 · This season, Paula Vogel is the subject of Signature's examination and its first offering is "The Oldest Profession," an imperfect piece from the 1980s that shows its age but demonstrates...
