Travel-Themed Theater: It’s a Trend
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 11.28.05 | 5:29 AM ET
Earlier this year we wrote about Plane Crazy and Baby Taj, and now a third travel-themed play has come to our attention: The Light in the Piazza. According to that flimsy journalism maxim that two examples is a coincidence but three makes a trend, we’ve got ourselves a winner.
“Piazza” has been running in New York since March, but its significance as a commentary on travel escaped me until I read Susan Spano’s column about it in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. The play centers on an American mother and daughter traveling in Italy during the summer of 1953, and Spano writes that it inspired her to think about “the way we encounter foreign cultures and the prejudices we bring to them, and how emotion colors our responses to faraway places.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
