Funeral Potatoes
Written and Performed by Jjana Valentiner
Directed by Dody DiSanto
Produced at Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

The talented Jjana Valentiner brings a cache of characters to life in this touching collective of family members from Mormon stock on their various, sometimes comical life journeys.  Riffing on and off the subtitle-”A Good Wife Always Knows Her Place,” the play centers on a young woman struggling with her family’s request that she speak at her grandfather’s funeral. [Read more...]

• The Bridge of Bodies
• Written and performed by Kathleen Gonzales          
• Directed by Patrick Crowley                                 Â Â Â Â Â 
• Produced by the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
• Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy   

Sounds of breaking waves and a projected image of surf washing on shore place us in a paradise of calm. A faint echo of voodoo drums sets us up for the cultural question: ‘What is your name? Not just the first but your last.’ [Read more...]