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| Elizabeth Broeder, Marlene Galan Woods, Xavier Morris, and Jacob Nichols Photo Courtesy of iTheatre Collaborative |
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"...in November of 1979, 52 Americans were taken hostage by a group of Iranian college students at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held for 444 days. Six months after the Iranian hostage crisis started, Barbara Timm, the mother of a Marine guard who was one of the hostages, and her husband traveled to Iran to try to see her son...19-year-old Kevin Hermening, who was the youngest hostage taken...Michelle Kholos Brooks' play Hostage is a tautly written drama.. makes its Arizona debut in an exceptional, thought-provoking production at iTheatre Collaborative that features a stellar performance by Marlene Galan Woods as Barbara Timm...proves to be a quite insightful study in peeling back our perceptions of the people at the center of this famous incident to show that there is much more to their stories than we first knew...Christopher Haines' direction ensures the emotional impact of the scenes resonates. His actors are all adept in creating three-dimensional characters and in bringing an urgency and importance to the individuals they portray and the actions they make....Marlene Galan Woods delivers a stunning performance of a woman who, she believes, is doing what any other mother would do to protect her child and ensure his safety. She creates a multi-dimensional woman, with nuance and layers, and the scenes she has with Jacob Nichols as Kevin are packed with emotion. ...The beauty of Hostage is that it shows how a woman went to Iran to ensure her son was safe but in doing so learned a lot about herself and her son's captors. It manages to show more than one side of a topic and the human inside each individual. ... " -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
".....While based on fact, Kholos Brooks’ play is an imagined account of what was said during that exchange, and every second is emotionally charged... With a running time of 85 minutes, no intermission... Even though the scenes jump from one location to another and characters either face the audience with a statement that is being read on TV or they comment to each other from one time setting to the other, there’s never a doubt as to what is being said, where, and to whom....." -David Appleford, Valley Screen and Stage (click here to read the complete review)
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