Quartet: Monday Show
The late Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz) is probably best remembered as the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Pianist, but he was first and foremost a playwright.
One of his most charming plays is Quartet, which opened in London in 1999, and thirteen years later was adapted by Harwood as a film directed by Dustin Hoffman, starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtney.
Quartet is set in a retirement home for musicians. Three aging former opera stars, Reginald, Julie and Cecily, are gearing up for a gala concert performance in honor of Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday. Their reverie is disturbed by the sudden arrival of Jean, another former opera singer, who has never shaken off her well-earned reputation as a diva. Complicating matters further, Reginald turns out to be her long-suffering ex-husband.
In his review of the original London production, Paul Taylor, writing for The Independent, described the play as “a vehicle to make us laugh a little, sigh a little and cry a little” as the four characters “take us into the bittersweet world of facing up to age and mortality.”
Theater veteran Alan Jacobson (founder and former artistic director of the much-admired Plaza Theatre in Palm Beach County) has assembled a superb cast of actors, including himself, his actress/singer wife Melissa Boher Jacobson, Desiree Duncan, and Matthew Rappaport. There will be two performances of Quartet, as a staged reading, at the Jewish Cultural & Community Center, Calle de las Moras 47 (near the corner of 5 de Mayo), on Monday, April 20, at 7pm and Tuesday, April 21, at 4pm.
Click below for tickets to the Monday, April 20, 7pm show. Tickets can also be purchased for cash at the Jewish Center, during normal business hours, and there is a 20 percent discount for JC3 members.
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| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
|---|---|---|
| General Admission | $250.00 |
PRICE IN MEXICAN PESOS