{"id":25440,"date":"2024-05-08T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=25440"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:30:50","slug":"vision-disturbance-helps-people-see-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2024\/05\/08\/vision-disturbance-helps-people-see-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision Disturbance<\/em> helps people see hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vision Disturbance<\/i> is an odd love story written by Christina Masciotti, and Theatre Inconnu is bringing it to the stage this month. The play follows Mondo, an immigrant woman in the middle of a divorce so vicious that the stress begins to affect her eyesight\u2014this leads to a budding romance with her optometrist. The pair are the only on-stage characters, and the script digs deep into their psyches, allowing director Wendy Gail to dig deep into the messaging.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some ways, we all feel like strangers in a strange land,\u201d says Gail. \u201cMondo, she is an immigrant from Greece who lives now in Redding, Pennsylvania. And she also doesn\u2019t feel like she belongs in this community at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vision Disturbance<\/em> is an odd love story that aims to remind people about seeing the positive, even in negative times (photo by Sarah Nicole Faucher).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gail is a well-established director in the Victoria theatre scene and she always finds a way to put her own spin on things, particularly when it comes to her stance on women taking the stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlays have mostly been written by men for men and one of my guiding things is to find plays that have strong women in the roles,\u201d says Gail. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t, and I\u2019ve been asked to direct it, I\u2019ll try to figure out a way to make it have strong women in it. For example, I directed a play called Trad<\/i> for Theatre Inconnu\u2014it was supposed to be done by three men. I thought, well, the heck with that. It was sort of a fantasy play set in Ireland\u2026 So I figured, hey, we can have women play those men, and we did. They put on the long, grey beards and the hats and everything, and they were fabulous, and people loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This play is no exception. Mondo\u2019s character arc shows her strength, humanity, grit, sense of humor, and grief, says Gail.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing to a completely different world, you have to have a lot of strength and fortitude, and flexibility too, because you have to be able to pick up on the new language as well,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd so Mondo\u2019s journey is really well illustrated by the author. Mondo has a lot of monologues in which she describes not only her husband, but also her experience as an immigrant living in this new, weird world, and also what life was like in Greece. She ultimately comes to a realization that she has to integrate into this world if she\u2019s going to make it, but not to sort of shove off her Greek identity because she will always be a Greek woman in living in the US… It certainly gives it a lot of texture and a lot of depth to have that to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show deals with a wide range of human emotions, leaving it hard to clearly label as a tragedy, comedy, drama, romance, or any other singular definition. But Gail says that, ultimately, the show is about hope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people are angry, a lot of people are anxious, a lot of people are depressed for various, you know, gazillions of reasons,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd this play shows that even if you\u2019re not perfect, there are aspects of the world around you that you can savour and enjoy. And that\u2019s what these two people discover with each other. And it\u2019s not saying, Oh, they get married, and they wind up happily ever after or anything like that. It\u2019s just saying that with another person, or a friend or whatever, you can find ways to find joy in your life. And I think we all have to hang on to that and remember that, and hopefully this play will make people think that and feel that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vision Disturbance<\/i>
\n<\/i>Various days and times, until Saturday, May 18
\n$10 student tickets, 1923 Fernwood Road
\ntheatreinconnu.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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