In an Italian-American section of
Brooklyn sits a rundown local bar called The
Alamo. The place is fighting to keeps its doors open and welcomes the
arrival of young artists wanting to adopt the bar as an entertainment hangout.
However, the aging customers, eight working-class neighbors, don’t want to
surrender their bar, much less their neighborhood, to these neo-carpetbaggers.
These are vivid characters who carry
scars of the past - from Vietnam to 9/11 - and they are ready to fight for
their place in the world.
Says
director Kent Thompson, “I love this play, because Ian McRae writes with
such passion, compassion, and humor, about a forgotten group of people - blue
collar Americans!”
At Ruskin Group
Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA through March 31. Tickets: 310-397-3244
or www.ruskingrouptheatre.com. Free parking.
Photos by Ed Krieger
Also in my column in the March issue of NOT BORN YESTERDAY.
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