50 Shades of Perfect (or) How I Spent My 50th Birthday

If you think your butt’s too flat or your boobs are too small, your nose is too long or your legs are too thick, your waist is too round or your hair is too dull, this is the play for you. How do we compete with the perfection of Instagram Beauty? How incredible it would be to be free of the pressure to appear magazine airbrushed, of youth being the benchmark for perfection, but rather accept that the ideal body, the perfect body, is simply…what we already have. Perhaps our imperfections are what make us perfectly unique. Turning 50 is finally the time to accept reality, verses expectation… right?!
Join us for Linda’s 50th Birthday celebration, as Repertory Actors Workshop (RAW) Shortburst® Theatre presents a one-night-only production exploring the differences between perseverance and stubbornness, frustration and acceptance. Why is perfection so important? Is perfection desirable? And perfect to whom? When is good enough good enough?
Helmed by Playhouse co-artistic director Chris DeCarlo, written by Playhouse Playwright-in-Residence Evelyn Rudie, crafted and performed by Patricia Burgos, Martin Cohen, Shannon Conlon, Serena de Stella, Bob Hucul, Heather Jones, Linda Kohn, Alexandra Lambrakis, Eleonore Nebot, Elena Pinto and Berkeley Sanjay, who does double duty as assistant director. One performance only – Friday, March 23, at 8:00pm.
ShortBurst® Theatre 由剧场联合艺术总监克里斯-德卡洛（Chris DeCarlo）和伊夫琳-鲁迪（Evelyn Rudie）创建，作为国际戏剧和文化交流的工具，并由副导演塞雷娜-多林斯基（Serena Dolinsky）在当地和全国进一步发展、其目标是培养社区意识，深入了解我们共同的和不同的传统和文化的异同，并为观众和参与者提供充满活力的工具，以改变他们的生活和社区的健康和福祉。.
50 Shades of Perfection is supported in part by grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Cotkin Family, Pearl and Bill Bordy, and Playhouse PALS.
$20 ticket price includes a post-show wine and birthday cake reception with the cast.