Photo Coverage: Mamet's Two Unrelated Plays Open in LA

Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, including a world premiere production, opened over the hot Los Angeles weekend drawing a recognizable crowd to the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. 

A double-bill of short plays featuring The Duck Variations and Keep Your Pantheon (a world premiere stage production), both are directed by Neil Pepe.  Leading the Two Unrelated Plays are Michael Lerner, Ed O'Neill, David Paymer and Jack Wallace.

In Keep Your Pantheon "an impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement and life is finally on the upswing. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term 'dying on stage,'" state press notes.
 
Duck Variations, "a sly meditation on the meaning of life written in the early 1970s, depicts conversations between two elderly men who are sitting on a park bench and watching ducks. Their observations about the ducks, whether factual or incorrect, create a beautiful fugue on the human condition – on family and friendship, the possibility of happiness and on death."

The Kirk Douglas Theatre is located at 9820 Washington Blvd. in Culver City.  For further information, please call (213) 628-2772 or visit www.CenterTheatreGroup.org.  And for more from James Sims visit www.simsscoop.com.

Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.