"Allies" debates cultural identity, at Between the Lines Studio Theatre
"Allies," a new play by Alexander Kventon, has appeared just as our society questions cultural identity.
It revolves around a group of six white men in a diversity meeting. The meeting takes up the whole ninety-minute play, although there is plenty of drama and a shocking ending, which I wont reveal here.
On July 7 and 8, Allentowns Between the Lines Theatre performed this drama in what it called an elevated reading, where the actors read their lines from the script but move about instead of just remaining in place. The format worked here, since the plot has the actors seated most of the time, and there was only one point where there was a pause to describe the action.
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