Read the full article by Patti Roberts at Sacramento News & Review
During the day, Gideon is an enthusiastic museum employee whose job is to reenact an immigrant living in a New York Lower East Side apartment in 1890. By night he’s a geeky history nerd with little social life.
He’s joined by new museum employee Margie, hired to portray his immigrant wife, though she has little interest in the job, in reenactment, or in history — she just needs a paycheck.
Bringing these two unlikely characters together in an ever-shifting storyline is the creative premise of playwright Carly Mensch’s “Now Circa Then,” currently playing at Capital Stage, on J Street in Sacramento. As usual for Capital Stage, this production is both entertaining and thought-provoking.