Elisabeth McGown |
Dating
websites have become a popular method to mingle and date people. Creating a
profile, receiving messages from potential dates, and eventually meeting them
is all part of the whole process. However, there are possibilities of running
into some liars. I’m sure you’ve become aware of creeps online trying to
promote themselves, which have usually ended up scaring some website users.
Personally,
I have never used a dating website; I prefer to stay offline in terms of
meeting new people, partially because of what I’ve heard can happen if you run
into a creepy site user. This hasn’t stopped other people from using dating
sites though, and it shouldn’t. These websites can genuinely be helpful in
building relationships. We’ve all seen the “Christian Mingle” and “eHarmony”
commercials about how the websites have helped create recent and happy
relationships…even marriages. But how reliable are these sites? Is it all just
black and white, satisfaction or distrust of a dating site? Is there a grey
area in all of this? Or in other words, is it a mix of happiness, but also
reality, meaning some bad parts to a relationship, or even just a date? Is this
grey part indicative of a balance in persona, such as not being overly and
weirdly sexual or annoyingly timid?
Amanda
Ortega explores this “grey” area in her play Sixty Shades of Grey. Now before you think it is just another
parody of the infamous Fifty Shades
series, it’s not. It’s actually about two people, Lilly and Joe, who are both
on their ways to meet with their “Match.com” date as the elevator breaks.
Ortega used comedy in her play to show the juxtaposition between the two
characters. Lilly, an anxious and expectant young woman meets Joe, a calm and
intelligent guy. Their conversations are compelling as they bicker over little
things then gradually reveal themselves.
The
real fact that illuminates from this play is that these modern dating sites
make it hard to find the grey area in what one is interested in. Sometimes
finding someone who has too much in common with you, and is therefore just too
perfect, isn’t exciting. Then again, finding someone who is just horrendously
opposite of you has too been found as a negative effect of meeting people
online. So how do you find your shade of grey? How do you figure out what
person is “right” for you as they say?
Sixty Shades of Grey will answer these
questions for you. Show dates are July 14 at 7pm, July 17 at 3pm, and July 20
at 7pm.
SIXTY SHADES OF GREY by Amanda Ortega
A romantic
comedy with a twist: a single woman is on her way to meet her first “normal”
Match.com date when suddenly she gets stuck in an elevator with a man she wants
nothing to do with.
Thursday, July
14th at 7pm
Sunday, July
17th at 3pm
Wednesday,
July 20th at 7pm
For tickets go
to https://www.therianttheatre.com/item.php?id=247
At
the Theatre at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street, NYCThe Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One-Act Festival
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