All week, we’ll be previewing the shows
by MDC writers that will be featured in the upcoming Kansas City Fringe
Festival, July 16-26. Click here for
a complete schedule of Fringe shows by MDC playwrights (and staff!).
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By Michelle T. Johnson
Luke is a talented and successful
artist who also works a “day job” as a graphic designer. He and his longtime
girlfriend Maya are devoted to each other. The only wrinkle in an otherwise
beautiful life is Luke's bipolar disorder, where taking his medication
regularly to keep life in balance sometimes conflicts with the creative urges
to which Luke needs to surrender. What choices does Luke make? What choices
does Maya tolerate? When you are bipolar and play fast and loose with your
medication, sometimes love means always having to say you're sorry.
Or, as director Teresa Leggard
explains, “This play is about the struggle that
arises when you have to choose between doing your best work and being your best
self."
Playwright Michelle T. Johnson says
she had been wanting to tell this story for a long time—and the script for this
production started to take final shape at a January
staged reading and talkback hosted at Midwest Dramatists Center (presented
under the working title Cushioned Edges),
which Leggard also directed. The Fringe production features Davis DeRock, Meredith Wolfe, Ted Collins, and Sherri
Roulette-Mosley, with Thai Matthews serving as stage manager.
Best Light will
be performed at the Just Off Broadway
(3051 Penn Valley Dr.) at the following times:
7/17- Friday- 11:00 pm*
7/18- Saturday- 4:00 pm**
7/20- Monday- 6:30 pm
7/24- Friday- 9:30 pm
7/25- Saturday- 8:00 pm
Purchase tickets HERE.
*Free guacamole and chips to celebrate opening night!
**Free cinnamon rolls to celebrate making it through opening
night!
