Society 805 - Page 6

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Review: When We Were Young and Unafraid

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Review

The play When We Were Young and Unafraid is sort of a local legend. Originally a smaller project workshopped in Ojai, it was eventually produced off-Broadway in 2014. Its author, Sarah Treem has gone on to do television, including writing for Game of Throne, I believe. The play itself is a well-structured, tightly written play set in 1972 about women's issues, featuring four strong women's parts and a token male role. Though set in the 70s it is more relevant today than ever.

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JUN

06

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Delightful Bob Privitt Show at the Ventura County Museum

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Art Review

Delightful Bob Privitt Show at the Ventura County Museum

Bob Privitt's solo show, Manipulations, brings another round of Privitt's well-known and delightful assemblages to the Ventura County Museum. Privitt has also had a solo show of his work at the Tool Room gallery at the Bell Arts Center when it was run by the museum. The current show presents a tighter, more closely related group of small sculpture/assemblages. Though color is not usually a key element in assemblage art, this show uses color very effectively to up the intensity of the visual impact to good effect.

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JUN

05

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Review: Milo's Other Mozart Performance of a Lifetime Comes to Rubicon

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Review

Beyond Mozart
Milo's Other Mozart Performance of a Lifetime Comes to Rubicon

It is to Karyl Lynn Burns and the Rubicon Theatre's great credit that they have brought Sylvia Milo's truly remarkable performance, The Other Mozart, to Ventura and the Rubicon stage for a limited engagement. This is a very special night of theatre, not to be missed by anyone even remotely interested in seeing a great performance. There is nothing quite like it available anywhere else. Rubicon brings in not only Milo but her entire original production that ran so successfully in New York and London and now tours internationally.

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MAY

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#TBM Artist Interview- WAV Resident Frances Spencer

By Society 805 Staff Writer

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/10/10)

As a playwright, a poet, a painter, and a print-maker, Frances Spencer has firmly planted herself in both the world of art and the world of writing and drama--but there really is not much of a distinction to be found there. Spencer has lived and enjoyed her two passions thoroughly through her experimenting and conceiving and creating.

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#TBM Artist Interview- WAV Resident Luther Gerlach

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Luther Gerlach—A Modern Day Vintage Photographer

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/10/10)

Edward Weston’s vintage classical photography took simple subjects--the naked body or a simple plant--and transformed each into something magnificent through his genius use of the camera and the darkroom. Luther Gerlach is one of many who studied Weston’s work and immediately became enthralled with his skill--both technical and visual.

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MAY

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#TBM Artist Interview- WAV Resident Erin O’Brien

By Society 805 Staff Writer

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/10/10)

Erin O’Brien Brings Your Walls to Life

Upon entering O’Brien’s studio the first item that catches your attention is a life like painting of three young boys. The painting was immaculate; the clarity was so precise that I could’ve sworn it was in HD. The beauty of this painting reminded me of another great painting done by a superb renaissance artist: “Portrait of the Artist Brother and Sisters by Sofonisba Anguissola”. Once inside I had the pleasure to make the acquaintance of O’Brien’s dear friend Betty. O’Brien was very humble, and without the help of Betty I wouldn’t have been able to pry some of O’Brien’s outstanding accomplishments out of her.

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MAY

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Jimmie Durham at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Art Review

BEYOND THE 805

At the Center of the World

Jimmie Durham at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles

Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, a retrospective of Durham's work put together by Hammer's curator Anne Ellegood is a superb exhibition, infused with the most marvelously incisive wit and visual cunning.

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MAY

02

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#TBM Artist Interview- WAV Resident Colin Fraser Gray

By Society 805 Staff Writer

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/10/10)

Tea with Colin Fraser

Before meeting with Colin Fraser Gray, I had the opportunity to browse through his website; www.colinfrasergray.com. The website gave me a brief overview of Colin’s work, and his accomplishments. His work is mesmerizing; it jumps out and literally shakes your soul. This was the feeling it gave me from looking at the online photo’s, to see his artwork close up in real life was an experience all its own. From my research I came across interesting facts on Colin. In 2006 Colin rocked the city of Santa Barbara with his controversial sculpture “W”. The sculpture is a toppled, upside down McDonalds sign with green arrows shot into it. A very powerful piece that, I took as a stance against the corporatism that was running rampant at the time, and the head honcho known as “Dubya”.

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APR

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Review: Beached

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Review

Two Lights at Elite's South Stage

Elite Theatre Company has brought the world premier of Brett Busang’s Two Lights to its South Stage theatre, which is their annex for showing new work, and more experimental productions. Set in the 1950s it is a tight little drama loosely based on the life of Edward Hopper, the great American painter, and his wife, who was also a painter and modeled for her husband.

Jake Mailey (left) as Al and Clayton McLannock as Ed- Photos Credit: Joe Orrego

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Review:To Woo Is to Win

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Review

Santa Paula Theatre Center’s Outside Mullingar and The Elite Theatre Company’s Engaging Shaw

Though profoundly different in virtually every other aspect, the current offering of two 805 theatres, the Santa Paula Theatre Center’s Outside Mullingar and the Elite Theatre’s Engaging Shaw, feature the exact same theme: the long-term wooings of a woman for a remarkably resistant man.

Jessi May Stevenson (left) as Rosemary, Cecil Sutton as Tony and Rosalee Calvillo as Aoife in the romantic Irish comedy OUTSIDE MULLINGAR by John Patrick Shanley, Photo Credit: Brian Stethem

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