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Playreaders to be “almost perfect”,
April 20, 2007
Theater
Almost Perfect
Wed & Thurs, April 25 & 26, 7:30pm
Parish hall of St. Paul’s Church
Cardo 6
10-peso donation requested
This engaging comedy is about marriage, adultery, career choices, opposing a domineering father and finding one’s own identity. Playwright Jerry Mayer, who had an impressive career writing and producing for TV shows such as M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show and the Mary Tyler Moore Show, frankly admitted that Almost Perfect was partially autobiographical. When the play premiered at the Santa Monica Playhouse, critics comments included such phrases as “blessed with non-stop humor and underlying goodwill,” “Mayer’s funny writing is full of pungent epigrams,” “unwinds with charm and wit,” “Mayer’s dialogue is a delight” and the play subsequently won a Dramalogue Award for comedy playwriting.
The Playreaders cast for Almost Perfect includes Michael Gottlieb, Rudy Hornish, Tim Johnson, Nancy Kandal, Megan Pearson, and new reader Anna Bensaud. Larry Gassler handles lights and sounds, and Lola Smith directs.
This is the last presentation before Playreaders breaks for its annual holiday. We will resume our twice a month productions some time in the second half of June. Watch Atención for the exact date, but in the meantime be sure not to miss this last-of-the-season chance to enjoy San Miguel’s best theatrical bargain.
So what’s your number?
Theater
Is Ennybody Home?
Sat, Apr 21, 8pm
El Viejo-Topo Café
Stirling Dickinson 28
Plaza Pueblito
Col San Antonio
154-8701
Sheilah Glover performs her hilarious and acclaimed musical comedy and theatre act, Is Ennybody Home? for one night only on April 21. What Eve Ensler did for Vagina Monologues and San Miguel does for face lifts, Sheilah does for our human “foibles and troubles,” as portrayed in the Enneagram.
The Enneagram defines 9 character types—Reformer, Helper, Motivator, Romantic, Thinker, Skeptic, Enthusiast, Leader, Peacemaker—which Sheilah’s characters deconstruct in all their humanness. By taking a compassionate look at each type, she shows how to find our way home to the uncompromising strengths that live within each of us. Is Ennybody Home? is witty, transformative and memorable.
The Enneagram numbers
1. The Reformer
The rational, idealistic type: principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic
Key Motivations: Want to be right, to strive higher and improve everything, to be consistent with their ideals, to justify themselves, to be beyond criticism so as not to be condemned by anyone.
Celebrity 1’s: Mahatma Gandhi, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Paul II, Noam Chomsky, Michael Dukakis, Margaret Thatcher.
2. The Helper
The caring, interpersonal type: generous, demonstrative, people-pleasing, and possessive
Key Motivations: Want to be loved, to express their feelings for others, to be needed and appreciated, to get others to respond to them, to vindicate their claims about themselves.
Celebrity 2’s: Mother Teresa, Barbara Bush, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Barry Manilow, Lionel Ritchie, Luciano Pavarotti.
3. The Achiever
The success-oriented, pragmatic type: adaptable, excelling, driven, and image-conscious
Key Motivations: Want to be affirmed, to distinguish themselves from others, to have attention, to be admired, and to impress others.
Celebrity 3’s: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Shirley MacLaine, Sting.
4. The Individualist
The sensitive, withdrawn type: expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental
Key Motivations: Want to express themselves and their individuality, to create and surround themselves with beauty, to maintain certain moods and feelings, to withdraw to protect their self-image, to take care of emotional needs before attending to anything else, to attract a “rescuer.”
Celebrity 4’s: Bob Dylan, Rudolph Nureyev, Maria Callas, Edgar Allan Poe, Prince.
5. The Investigator
The intense, cerebral type: perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated
Key Motivations: Want to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out as a way of defending the self from threats from the environment.
Celebrity 5’s: Bill Gates, Georgia O’Keefe, John Lennon, Stephen King, Friedrich Nietzsche, Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain.
6. The Loyalist
The committed, security-oriented type: engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious
Key Motivations: Want to have security, to feel supported by others, to have certitude and reassurance, to test the attitudes of others toward them, to fight against anxiety and insecurity.
Celebrity 6’s: RFK, Malcolm X, Princess Diana, George Bush, Tom Hanks.
7. The Enthusiast
The busy, fun-loving type: spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and scattered
Key Motivations: Want to maintain their freedom and happiness, to avoid missing out on worthwhile experiences, to keep themselves excited and occupied, to avoid and discharge pain.
Celebrity 7’s: JFK, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Taylor, W.A. Mozart, Bette Midler, Chuck Berry, Gianni Versace, Liza Minelli.
8. The Challenger
The powerful, dominating type: self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational
Key Motivations: Want to be self-reliant, to prove their strength and resist weakness, to be important in their world, to dominate the environment, and to stay in control of their situation.
Celebrity 8’s: M.L. King, Jr., FDR, LBJ, Mikhail Gorbachev, G.I. Gurdjieff, Pablo Picasso, Sean Connery, Susan Sarandon.
9. The Peacemaker
The easygoing, self-effacing type: receptive, reassuring, agreeable, and complacent
Key Motivations: Want to create harmony in their environment, to avoid conflicts and tension, to preserve things as they are, to resist whatever would upset or disturb them.
Celebrity 9’s: Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Grace, Sophia Loren, “Marge Simpson” (The Simpsons).
To find out your number join the local Enneagram Class with Psychologist, Dr. Beverly Nelson. Mondays, 4 to 6pm, at LifePath: A Center for Personal Growth and Healing Recreo 80, $50 pesos. For information call 154 8465
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