Three's Company

As Schoolhouse Rock! taught us, "Three is a magic number." The proof's in the pudding of what happens when you travel or, God forbid, live with two of your friends -- if it's not unanimous, someone always loses. Then there's that tipping-point tension -- no spare legs to keep the...

By Julie Peterson

March 15, 2012

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As Schoolhouse Rock! taught us, "Three is a magic number." The proof's in the pudding of what happens when you travel or, God forbid, live with two of your friends -- if it's not unanimous, someone always loses. Then there's that tipping-point tension -- no spare legs to keep the whole thing upright. Life provides one little nudge, and boom!

French playwright Yasmina Reza has shown Valley (and worldwide) audiences the funny-scary dynamics of couples in some of her hits, strangers in others, and, in Art, three middle-aged bros, longtime friends whose buried pain, resentment, and insecurities build to the boiling point when one of them buys a painting the other two think is crap. The veneer of polite civilization falls away, things get very primal and personal, and you'll also laugh your ass off.

Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 11, 3 p.m.; Wed., March 14, 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 p.m. Starts: March 9. Continues through March 24, 2012

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Julie has written for the Night & Day events calendar section since 2005. As a student at Arizona State, she received the Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Creative Writing Award and the Theatre Medallion of Merit.

Contact: Julie Peterson