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Jaco Theater Presents New Play
- Friday, 20 January 2012 02:00
- Last Updated on Thursday, 19 January 2012 10:19
- Written by Rod Hughes
Coming hard on the heels of the first success of their inaugural season, (A Christmas Carol last December) Teatro Jaco is presenting its second production, 17 Border Crossings.
The play comes directly from Madrid at the start of its world tour and runs Jan. 19-29, Thursday through Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The play is to be presented at Jaco Theater in the Oceans Center Jaco on Ave. Pastor Diaz at Jaco Beach.
Ticket prices are $35 for main floor, $20 for the balcony and a special price of $17.50 for the Spanish-language versions performed Sunday.
In the tradition of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, director Thaddeus Phillips strips the stage bare for Border Crossings to focus on character and political satire as well as intelligent humor to examine our modern globalization.
The play moves one through the borders of Tunisia, Bosnia, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Bali, Czech Republic, Israel, Jordan, Serbia, Slovenia and Mexico. It is a dramatic examination of the imaginary lines we place so much importance in, a journey of passport regulations, customs shape by such evens as the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and constriction of 9/11.
It is as modern as the "Arab Spring. Writer-Actor Phillips himself is an international person who lives in Philadelphia, PA, and Bogata, Colombia and was trained in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
This blog is grateful to the San Francisco Chronicle for background information.
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That is an interesting observation on the two prices, however I can think of some legitimate reasons:
1. They may want to encourage local people to attend, the average gross income in Costa Rica according to one of our recent articles 5th in Global Environmental Performance is about $10,000, while most foreign residents should earn more than double that, even if they just have a social security pension. So if the tickets don't seem affordable to locals, they won't go.
2. Lots of tours and hotels offer one price for residents (who can be repeat customers) and another for visitors (who may stay only once in their lifetime) I think this is similar and is generally not considered discriminatory.
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