COVID shut down this #MeToo play in L.A. How it's staging a comeback

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A theater company's MeToo alarm blast of a play was closed due to COVID-19. But there's some good news: are you free later today?

for its teen community program, “Antigone” unfolds in the mid-1990s among six students, ages 15 to 18, at a Catholic girls’ boarding school and their male drama teacher, in his mid-40s.In the live March show, Madeleine Hernandez and Jessica Ma were particularly compelling as, respectively, a quiet overachiever and a surly rebel.

The screen layout is essentially the Zoom checkerboard of faces. Camera-on equals an entrance, camera-off an exit. Facial expressions — and responding to others through the webcam — become especially important, Dutt explains. The girls’ drama teacher has a gift for sensing what will motivate each young actor. Onstage, Luis Fernandez-Gil imbued him with the warm sensitivity that can make a teacher beloved, combined with charisma so irresistible that it hints at trouble.

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