The Newton Nomadic Theater’s newest show, Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, returns to Newton this coming weekend for two shows at Bocca Bella in Auburndale.
Molly Sweeney opened three weeks ago and is amazing. It’s been getting great reviews and playing to sold-out audiences for the past two weekends.
Next Fri (2/26) and Sat (2/28) we’ll be bringing the show back to Newton, to the back room at Bocca Bella’s Cafe & Bistro for the first time ever. These shows will start a bit later – 8 PM, so book dinner beforehand at Boccca Bella if you like. If you’ve never been there, you’ll love it.
Saturday’s show will also feature the fabulous fiddling of Emerald Rae before hand and during the intermission. Bocca Bella will be serving refreshments (wine, beer, soft, drinks) to the Molly Sweeney audience before, after, and during intermission and will also be hosting an after-the-show reception with some complementary snacks, so stick around afterwards and meet the actors (Noni Lewis, Billy Meleady, Stephen Cooper) and fiddler Emerald Rae.
Tickets are still available for both shows but we do expect them to sell out, so book tickets and maybe a dinner reservation at Bocca Bella (617-928-1200) soon.
I absolutely love this production but I’m sure you take that for granted.
I know a few of you V14’ers have already seen the show. Please let the rest of Village14 know what you thought … especially if you liked it 😉
I absolutely love this production but I’m sure you take that for granted.
I know a few of you V14’ers have already seen the show. Please let the rest of Village14 know what you thought … especially if you liked it 😉
My bride and I were lucky enough to see the show at the home of the gracious Siegal family.
It’s fabulous!
This is not community theater folks, this is the real deal. Three actors putting out as good as it gets.
You’re making a mistake if you miss it. Quality theater in a comfortable, intimate environment in our own neighborhood. They knock it out of the park.
My bride and I were lucky enough to see the show at the home of the gracious Siegal family.
It’s fabulous!
This is not community theater folks, this is the real deal. Three actors putting out as good as it gets.
You’re making a mistake if you miss it. Quality theater in a comfortable, intimate environment in our own neighborhood. They knock it out of the park.
Aha, I did see a gentleman with long flowing locks at one of the Siegel-St. John home shows. I had no idea it was the man himself, Terry Malloy. Thanks for the enthusiastic review.
Aha, I did see a gentleman with long flowing locks at one of the Siegel-St. John home shows. I had no idea it was the man himself, Terry Malloy. Thanks for the enthusiastic review.
Molly Sweeney is not a comedy, a farce, a satirical polemic, a saccharine love relationship, a creepy horror show, a Shakespearean tragedy. It is cerebral. It is compassionate. It is depressing. It is elevating. It is the human condition. A true story based, in fact, on the human condition.
Oliver Sacks died last year. He was a neurologist who penned case studies compassionately and meticulously describing the complicated lives and afflictions of some of his patients and who offered us such books as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and who also popularized the case study of a young woman whose surgery to repair her nearly lifelong blindness throws her into an emotional maelstrom that rips her from reality to the illusory peace and protection of the world of fantasy. Who would have thought that would be the consequence? Not those of us with seeing eyes.
Brian Friel died last year. He was the playwright who brought us Newton Nomadic Theater’s first production, Faith Healer. He also brought us Molly Sweeney, the play I saw last week, based on Oliver Sacks’ case study. He constructed the play much like Faith Healer. There are three characters in each play. They all speak in monologues to an audience hypnotized by their delivery. In Faith Healer, each character’s part is one full act. In Molly Sweeney, the three characters (Molly, her husband, her doctor) speak only to the audience, sequentially, in two acts that engage that audience as if they were the only ears listening in the world. Both plays are transforming. Both are cast magnificently. Both are acted with panache.
How such a new, small theater group can produce so large a human reaction boggles my mind.
Even if you missed Faith Healer last year and can’t draw the geographic links between the two plays, you would suffer from not gaining a new cerebral crease by missing Molly Sweeney. I am not kidding. See the show. Get your tickets today. It’s so much better than Clinton/Sanders vs. Trump/Cruz/Rubio and leaves you a tad more intelligent with a much more nuanced and less jaundiced view of the world!
Molly Sweeney is not a comedy, a farce, a satirical polemic, a saccharine love relationship, a creepy horror show, a Shakespearean tragedy. It is cerebral. It is compassionate. It is depressing. It is elevating. It is the human condition. A true story based, in fact, on the human condition.
Oliver Sacks died last year. He was a neurologist who penned case studies compassionately and meticulously describing the complicated lives and afflictions of some of his patients and who offered us such books as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and who also popularized the case study of a young woman whose surgery to repair her nearly lifelong blindness throws her into an emotional maelstrom that rips her from reality to the illusory peace and protection of the world of fantasy. Who would have thought that would be the consequence? Not those of us with seeing eyes.
Brian Friel died last year. He was the playwright who brought us Newton Nomadic Theater’s first production, Faith Healer. He also brought us Molly Sweeney, the play I saw last week, based on Oliver Sacks’ case study. He constructed the play much like Faith Healer. There are three characters in each play. They all speak in monologues to an audience hypnotized by their delivery. In Faith Healer, each character’s part is one full act. In Molly Sweeney, the three characters (Molly, her husband, her doctor) speak only to the audience, sequentially, in two acts that engage that audience as if they were the only ears listening in the world. Both plays are transforming. Both are cast magnificently. Both are acted with panache.
How such a new, small theater group can produce so large a human reaction boggles my mind.
Even if you missed Faith Healer last year and can’t draw the geographic links between the two plays, you would suffer from not gaining a new cerebral crease by missing Molly Sweeney. I am not kidding. See the show. Get your tickets today. It’s so much better than Clinton/Sanders vs. Trump/Cruz/Rubio and leaves you a tad more intelligent with a much more nuanced and less jaundiced view of the world!
Oh…and I was there when Terry Malloy was, too. He does melt hearts with his timeless Grecian God physique and golden locks. Alas, you as yet unmarrieds, he is.
Oh…and I was there when Terry Malloy was, too. He does melt hearts with his timeless Grecian God physique and golden locks. Alas, you as yet unmarrieds, he is.
My husband and I also saw Molly Sweeney at the Siegel home. Sorry to have missed the Malloy’s and Lipshutz’s. The performance was wonderful. The story was fascinating and gripping, and the acting was up there with the best I’ve ever seen. A must see.
My husband and I also saw Molly Sweeney at the Siegel home. Sorry to have missed the Malloy’s and Lipshutz’s. The performance was wonderful. The story was fascinating and gripping, and the acting was up there with the best I’ve ever seen. A must see.
Tickets are still available for both tonight and Saturday’s 8 PM shows at Bocca Bella – http://NewtonNomadicTheater.org.
Tickets are still available for both tonight and Saturday’s 8 PM shows at Bocca Bella – http://NewtonNomadicTheater.org.
Don’t miss this show! Get those tickets before they are gone!!!!!
I can also recommend Bocabella for dinner or post-theater dessert. Mario Bocabella, who used to serve up his wonderful Italian fare in Newton Highlands, now serves it up in lucky Auburndale!
And…it would be a municipal crime for you to miss seeing “Molly Sweeney.”
Don’t miss this show! Get those tickets before they are gone!!!!!
I can also recommend Bocabella for dinner or post-theater dessert. Mario Bocabella, who used to serve up his wonderful Italian fare in Newton Highlands, now serves it up in lucky Auburndale!
And…it would be a municipal crime for you to miss seeing “Molly Sweeney.”
Just one more weekend left. Next Sunday’s Dunn Gaherins show is sold out but still plenty of tickets available for Fri and Sat night shows at Gregorian Rugs. Our favorite fiddler, Emerald Rae, will be opening both those Gregorian Rugs show.
Tickets ($20) at NewtonNomadicTheater.org
Just one more weekend left. Next Sunday’s Dunn Gaherins show is sold out but still plenty of tickets available for Fri and Sat night shows at Gregorian Rugs. Our favorite fiddler, Emerald Rae, will be opening both those Gregorian Rugs show.
Tickets ($20) at NewtonNomadicTheater.org