Set in a remote B&B in the not too distant future, SAUGERTIES tells the story of Jen (Garrett) and Rog (Coleman), who are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. She’s broken hearted over infertility, desperate to escape her life and Rog will do whatever it takes to make her happy. Twenty years later a couple not so different from the first return to the same B&B. There to scatter her mother’s ashes, they struggle with their relationship. Games become dangerous and they are forced to reveal secrets that may destroy them both.
SAUGERTIES inhabits the space between what is now possible and our understanding of its significance. As science outstrips what we recognize and the landmarks disappear, one begins to question who we are to one another. This play, which tackles the ethics of new reproductive technologies, explores what it means to be human and grapples with what it means to love.
Saugerties
Critics
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Reviews: 4
Reviews
Wrapping the vagaries of romance around ethical examinations of soulless scientific advances is a tall order, presenting Garrett and Coleman a challenge to make us understand the moral decisions they are making and still relate to them and care for them as real human beings. It’s a testament to their acting skill that they largely accomplish both tasks.
Despite the presence of two consummate acting professionals – a thoughtfully restrained but powerful Chad L. Coleman and a beautiful and brilliant Beau Garrett – performing what seems like two plays in one, it is the concept and discussion opened by playwright Susan Eve Haar that rules the night here. And what a thoughtful night it is.
...And just when you think you understand where everyone is, the play manages to take the rug out from under you with more than one surprise twist worth the price of admission.
It’s an awkward piece of dramatic mush that feverishly gums together science fiction and histrionic absurdism.
We Angelenos are privileged to have occasional opportunities to see accomplished and currently-working actors ply their trade up-close. And the two-character play, Saugerties, at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood, affords us just such an opportunity. And this pair of thespians could not be better.
Wrapping the vagaries of romance around ethical examinations of soulless scientific advances is a tall order, presenting Garrett and Coleman a challenge to make us understand the moral decisions they are making and still relate to them and care for them as real human beings. It’s a testament to their acting skill that they largely accomplish both tasks.
Despite the presence of two consummate acting professionals – a thoughtfully restrained but powerful Chad L. Coleman and a beautiful and brilliant Beau Garrett – performing what seems like two plays in one, it is the concept and discussion opened by playwright Susan Eve Haar that rules the night here. And what a thoughtful night it is.
...And just when you think you understand where everyone is, the play manages to take the rug out from under you with more than one surprise twist worth the price of admission.
It’s an awkward piece of dramatic mush that feverishly gums together science fiction and histrionic absurdism.
We Angelenos are privileged to have occasional opportunities to see accomplished and currently-working actors ply their trade up-close. And the two-character play, Saugerties, at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood, affords us just such an opportunity. And this pair of thespians could not be better.