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August 9-13, Company of Fools will present the Tony Award-winning, wickedly funny comedy \u201cART\u201d by playwright Yasmina Reza. This year celebrates the 20th anniversary of the English translation by Christopher Hampton, and the play will run at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a very interesting 21st season and this is a piece that we have really wanted to do that showcases three fabulously talented actors,\u201d said Director Denise Simone.\u00a0\u201cI think my favorite thing about this play is the exploration of seeing what we want to see, but sometimes the situation changes, and then we see what we have to see to get what we want. It\u2019s a very active thing to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cART\u201d follows three longtime friends: Serge, Marc and Yvan. When Serge buys a very expensive piece of art that is white with white strips that can\u2019t really be seen, the piece of art cracks the triad of friends wide open and takes the characters to the cliff of their relationship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about friendship and art and how those two things mix together,\u201d said Joel Vilinsky, who plays Serge. \u201cWe fight like a bunch of middle schoolers while learning to grow and shift together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cMy character believes art is whatever makes you happy, which is what gets him in a lot of trouble later on because he\u2019s saying one thing to one character and another thing to another character because he\u2019s trying to keep everybody happy,\u201d said Chris Carwithen, who plays Yvan. \u201cIf you have a bold opinion, there\u2019s going to be someone who disagrees with you. But to Yvan, his friendships are infinitely more important than a painting.\u201d<\/p>\n To Marc, the painting is an overpriced joke, but Serge insists that Marc doesn’t possess the proper sensibility to appreciate the work.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a status thing,\u201d explained Scott Creighton, who plays Marc. \u201cI see my friend be taken in by snobbery, and how he now thinks he\u2019s a connoisseur, while I think the painting is a piece of crap. But it\u2019s not about the painting; I can\u2019t believe my friend has turned into such a snob and left me behind. We\u2019re fighting over Yvan so we can win, but there\u2019s really nothing to win.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the subject mater of the play and talk of relationships is very serious, the result is sheer comedy because the characters are so serious about something so seemingly inconsequential.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the humorousness of relationships that really comes through for me,\u201d Creighton said. \u201cThey are desperately trying to stay friends in the face of this insurmountable schism. It\u2019s not easy to dismiss a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n There are several moments in the play where the characters break away and talk directly to the audience.<\/p>\n \u201cI love that the playwright has us as the audience play juror,\u201d Simone said. \u201cEach character makes their case and it\u2019s all about the active communion between the characters and audience.\u201d<\/p>\n Tickets for \u201cART\u201d may be purchased online at\u00a0sunvalleycenter.org, by phone at (208) 578-9122\u00a0or at the Liberty Theatre box office starting one hour\u00a0prior to\u00a0curtain.\u00a0Company of Fools\u2019 box office is located at the Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main Street in Hailey, with hours from\u00a010 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.\u00a0All seats are reserved, with the exception of the \u201cPay What You Feel\u201d preview (August 9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ART\u2019 at Company of Fools BY YANNA LANTZ August 9-13, Company of Fools will present the Tony Award-winning, wickedly funny comedy \u201cART\u201d by playwright Yasmina Reza. This year celebrates the 20th anniversary of the English translation by Christopher Hampton, and the play will run at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. \u201cWe have a very interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,68,36,53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-calendar-2","9":"category-slider","10":"category-calendar-feature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}