Read the full article by Dave Kempa at Sacramento News & Review
Things are finally cooling down in the City of Trees, but the fall season of local live theater is just warming up. From a gender-bending journey through the Grand Canyon, to a tale of suburban warfare sparked over a koi pond, and a political satire featuring the worst gubernatorial candidate ever, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this September.
Ten men. Four boats. One big canyon. Based on the journal entries of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers and into the (heretofore) Great Unknown, “Men On Boats” is a strutting examination of the masculinity and bravado that defined Western explorers of yesteryear. While most of these trekkers were historically understood to be cisgender white men, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus pointedly notes in her script that the cast portraying them should not be. Get your oars up and out for this compelling tale of a one-armed captain and his loyal-but-a-little-bit-crazy team of volunteers.