2024-05-05T05:03:16-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/122295331/oren-safdie-s-play-false-solution-now-released Archinect 2015-03-06T20:19:00-05:00 >2015-03-15T16:03:01-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/p8/p8xthiomzn3csoeq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Excellent news for all fans of <a href="http://www.originalworksonline.com/FALSE-SOLUTION-by-Oren-Safdie_p_189.html?utm_source=MadMimi&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=PRESS+RELEASE%3A++%22False+Solution%22+by+Oren+Safdie+released+by+Original+Works+Publishing&amp;utm_campaign=20150227_m124618800_PRESS+RELEASE%3A++%22False+Solution%22+by+Oren+Safdie+released+by+Original+Works+Publishing&amp;utm_term=FALSE+SOLUTION" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>FALSE SOLUTION</em></a>, the latest architecture-inspired play by Oren Safdie (yes, son of <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/106501/safdie-architects" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moshe Safdie</a>): the piece not only just came out in publication but re-orders are only $6.99 this week.</p><p>Find some more detailed information we've received from Oren below, and also listen to our 2014 interview with him about <em>FALSE SOLUTION</em> <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/99370499/oren-safdie-s-play-false-solution-finishes-up-its-3-week-run-this-weekend-in-santa-monica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br><br><br>Original Works Publishing announces the publication of Oren Safdie&rsquo;s timely play, <em>FALSE SOLUTION</em>. Dealing with the creative process of the architect as it relates to the design for a Holocaust Museum in Poland, the play was produced in 2013 at La MaMa Theatre in New York before transferring to the Santa Monica Playhouse in 2014 [<a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/71357731/oren-safdie-s-architecture-themed-play-false-solution-opens-this-june" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">previously on Archinect</a>].</p><p>Margaret Gray of the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> wrote: &ldquo;The dialogue is engaging, witty and bracingly cerebral ... An undertaking Safdie persuasively presents as heart-breaking, morally fraught and politically hazardous.&rdquo;</p><p>Zachary Stewart of <em>TheaterMania</em> affirmed: &ldquo;Oren Safdie's intellectually s...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/99370499/oren-safdie-s-play-false-solution-finishes-up-its-3-week-run-this-weekend-in-santa-monica Paul Petrunia 2014-05-07T17:36:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ac/ac57z2y5qtwwv0xd.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Oren Safdie, architecture-turned-playwright (and son of <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/106501/safdie-architects" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moshe Safdie</a>), has taken his play <em>False Solution</em> to Santa Monica, after a run in NYC last year. <em>False Solution</em>, Safdie's 3rd architecture-themed play, following <em>Private Jokes, Public Places</em> and <em>The Bilbao Effect</em>, follows German-Jewish architect Anton Seligman (played by Daniel J. Travanti) as he designs a new Holocaust museum in Poland. Linda Johansson (played by Amanda Saunders), a first-year architecture student, brings sexual tension as she challenges his work.</p><p>I met up with Oren at his home in Venice Beach to talk about his work as a playwright. You can listen to our conversation below...</p><p></p><p>I also had a chance to record a read-through between leads Daniel J. Travanti, whom you may recognize as <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_j-pai0nBU0/TtMCKtfvEII/AAAAAAAABUM/E8W3wYGgEvo/s1600/Actor-Daniel-J-Travanti-receives-Emmy-Award-as-Outstanding-Lead-Actor-in-Hill-Street-Blues_8.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the captain from <em>Hill Street Blues</em>,</a> and Amanda Saunders.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/588251" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tickets to False Solution can still be purchased for the final four performances this Thursday to Sunday.</a></p>