This is a small intimate theater; the audience is ...

This is a small intimate theater; the audience is not far from the action. it s size and seating is very similar to the Pollock Stage at The Sacramento Theater Company. There is a comfortable outdoor seating area (with heaters for the cold weather) coffee, tea, wine, sweets and for meeting and conversation pre and post shows.
I have been thrilled by the plays I have seen. Sweat was the most moving, relevant, dynamic play I have EVER seen. Viet Gone was astonishing and eyeopening. The South Vietnamese thank our veterans for fighting with them; our involvement was not unnoticed or unappreciated. The current show, The Other Place, is riveting.
A smart, acerbic, scientist and mother is giving a sales presentation on a drug she developed against dementia. In the audience she is distracted by a woman in a yellow bikini. As it s an all male audience, she comments that she s not the only one distracted.
As the play continues we learn her daughter married her much older research assistant. They have two children. She is arranging a family visit to the beach house she owns with her husband. She believes her oncologist husband is having an affair and is going to divorce her.
We then learn the daughter ran away and was killed; the research assistant husband committed suicide years ago; there are no grandchildren; the beach house was sold and her husband is not having an affair. What is going on? It s a conundrum and the solution is in the play. We, the audience must sift the conflicting information to arrive at the truth. It is well worth seeing.