My overall impression
This show connects you to the neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Echo Park, and Highland Park ways you’ve never felt before. Because it’s a dramatisation of actual, real responses of people in The Eastsider, you learn the history of each area, but more importantly you learn the voices and character of each neighborhood. You get to hear old silver lake residents reminisce about the days when Silver Lake was filled with Hippies and homosexuals. You get to hear specific stories about the life of the Echo Park Lake boathouse over the decades, the way people describe gentrification and the way they cope with neighborhood change.
This play is about things we feel everyday, because we intimately connected to few things more than our neighborhoods. There is something special about this piece by Rory Mitchell. Go see it.
