“GO!”  

-LA Weekly

“...Playwright Jon Marans employs theatrical short-hand and presentational style to tell a wide-ranging, complex tale, and director Michael Matthews gives it a lively staging, assisted by an able and engaging cast...”

-LA Weekly

“Critics Pick”

- Backstage

“...This production vividly dramatizes the suffocating closet of a restrictive era. Kurt Boetcher’s set, a two-level stage against a black brick wall, evokes the seedy places where “temperamentals” had to congregate, and director Michael Matthews’ stylized opening, in which men in trench coats and fedoras stalk each other with a mixture of menace and seduction, could be a film noir sequence.”

-LA Times

“...director Michael Matthews excels at his craft and has staged a show both spare and elegant. He makes great use of a small set (designed by Kurt Boetcher) that looks like the inside of an abandoned factory, while utilizing a lighting design (Cameron Zetty) that brilliantly establishes a different feel for every implied location the men find themselves in...The Temperamentals is an absolute must-see. The icing on the cake is the phenomenally talented cast and production team.”

-Frontiers LA

By Jon Marans

Directed by Michael Matthews

The Blank Theatre

Los Angeles, CA

April 15 - June 5, 2011