Chance = Change

...of the two plays I have seen in the past week: BEAST ON THE MOON, by Richard Kalinowski, and SHOCKHEADED PETER, the interesting London import by a lot of people!
More to follow on these two, but for now, let this suffice:

BEAST ON THE MOON is a serious play about what happened in Armenia and Turkey in the approximate years 1920-1940....and the sad saga is seen through the lives of a young Armneian man and his mail-order Armenian bride...an older narrator (Louis Zorich) guides you through the reminiscences, and he turns out to be the older version of a young boy we see later in the play , an orphan that the young couple more or less adopts...there is much crying and recollection of horrifying experience (war is, after all, a very human hell) and Larry Moss directed (he ws my first acting teacher here in NYC) and his penchant for deep sea diving into the human psyche is very evident in the way he has shaped the honest direction of the actors' work...it is, for many reasons, however, a tough evening in the theater. And the use of music was thoroughly inexplicable to me...but more ont hat later.

SHOCKHEADED PETER made me think of what it must have been like to be one of the original audience memebers of the early ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW crowd, in London back in the 1960's...we did go to the 10 pm show, and it was crowded with young and hip New Yorkers, (I include myself in that of course), so there was a flavor of the naughtiness of staying up way past your bedtime....and the work onstage was visually compelling, and eerily thought provoking... and the Tiger Lilies (the odd and terrifically droll band who helped to create the entire thing) were engaging to the ear...and don't we all love to see children, especially rude ones, get their "commuppence"? (Richard, how do you spell :"commuppence?)??? At this point, however, let me say: I only wish we had been able to see the original English cast.
Also, more on that later...I have to get ready to go Upstate soon .