cover art by William Sloan/Three
“Down at the bottom of your
radio dial is a station with a weak signal but a strong message.
The man behind the message calls himself Hungry Mother, and he's
a disc jockey with a difference. In NATIVE SPEECH, the difference
is playwright Eric Overmyer's chilling vision of a society about
to go belly up....
NATIVE SPEECH shapes its ideas
through a network of rich visual and verbal images rather than
resorting to logic. Overmyer has created a wonderful hip language
for Hungry to speak, and it never dies in his mouth no matter how
surreal the psychic terrain through which we move. As in all good
cautionary tales, the unspoken word behind the story is:
beware.”
Jay Reiner, Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner
originally produced at the Los Angeles Theater Center/Los Angeles Actors Theater
7 M, 3 F
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