Martin (Will\u00a0Giammona) and Stevie (Erin Mei-Ling Stuart) have the kind of indulgent marriage where one spouse\u2019s increasing forgetfulness is fodder for gentle teasing and a shared laugh. With Martin newly minted as the youngest winner ever of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the couple\u00a0truly seem like they have it all.<\/p>\n
But that forgetfulness is worse than Martin initially lets on in Edward Albee\u2019s \u201cThe Goat or, Who is Sylvia?\u201d He can barely follow a conversation thread. His friend Ross (Kevin Singer) zeroes in on the problem: Martin\u2019s in love. But as the play title suggests, he isn\u2019t having an affair with the usual younger woman. The object of his love and lust is a ruminant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the 2000 play, now in a Shotgun Players production directed by Kevin Clarke, Martin is puzzled by himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always been good together \u2014 good in bed, good out; always honest, always\u2026 considerate,\u201d he says of himself and Stevie.<\/p>\n
In a way, the Tony Award-winning script is a mystery story with two simple questions: Why does Martin feel this way, and how is such a taboo possible in his ultra-bourgeois world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin (Will\u00a0Giammona) and Stevie (Erin Mei-Ling Stuart) have the kind of indulgent marriage where one spouse\u2019s increasing forgetfulness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[329,7,35717,332,143,145,144,1058],"class_list":["post-222719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-datebook-pick","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}