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Oren Safdie's play FALSE SOLUTION now released

2015-03-06T20:19:00-05:00

Excellent news for all fans of FALSE SOLUTION, the latest architecture-inspired play by Oren Safdie (yes, son of Moshe Safdie): the piece not only just came out in publication but re-orders are only $6.99 this week.

Find some more detailed information we've received from Oren below, and also listen to our 2014 interview with him about FALSE SOLUTION here.

Original Works Publishing announces the publication of Oren Safdie’s timely play, FALSE SOLUTION. 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 [previously on Archinect].

Margaret Gray of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “The dialogue is engaging, witty and bracingly cerebral ... An undertaking Safdie persuasively presents as heart-breaking, morally fraught and politically hazardous.”

Zachary Stewart of TheaterMania affirmed: “Oren Safdie's intellectually s...

Oren Safdie's play "False Solution" finishes up its 3-week run this weekend in Santa Monica

2014-05-07T17:36:00-04:00

Oren Safdie, architecture-turned-playwright (and son of Moshe Safdie), has taken his play False Solution to Santa Monica, after a run in NYC last year. False Solution, Safdie's 3rd architecture-themed play, following Private Jokes, Public Places and The Bilbao Effect, 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.

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...

I also had a chance to record a read-through between leads Daniel J. Travanti, whom you may recognize as the captain from Hill Street Blues, and Amanda Saunders.

Tickets to False Solution can still be purchased for the final four performances this Thursday to Sunday.

Oren Safdie's architecture-themed play "False Solution" opens this June

2013-04-16T14:57:00-04:00

Oren Safdie, son of Moshe Safdie, and writer of plays themed around architecture, will be opening his third play, titled "False Solution", on June 13th. The play deals with an established architect struggling to design a new Holocaust museum in Poland, focusing on the architect's creative process.

FALSE SOLUTION -- a world-premiere play about an architect's struggles to design a Holocaust museum in Poland - written by Oren Safdie (author of the Off-Broadway hit PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES, and THE BILBAO EFFECT) - will be presented Off-Broadway with previews starting June 13 prior to an official press opening night on June 16, 2013 at La MaMa ETC (74A East 4th Street) in Manhattan.

PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES, which also premiered at La MaMa in 2003 before transferring to the Center for Architecture, starred Anthony Rapp. Mr. Safdie's Off-Broadway play THE LAST WORD, also enjoyed critical and popular success in 2007, and starred Emmy Award-winning actor, Daniel J. Travant...

Bilbao Effect turns Off-Broadway Effect

2010-03-25T18:57:00-04:00

Playwright Oren Safdie, son of architect Moshe Safdie, will be debuting his latest play "The Bilbao Effect" at the Center for Architecture on May 16th.

In Mr. Safdie's play THE BILBAO EFFECT -- the second play of a planned trilogy focusing on contemporary architecture -- Erhardt Shlaminger is a world famous architect who faces censure by the American Institute of Architects, following accusations that his urban redevelopment project for Staten Island has led to a woman's suicide. The play tackles controversial urban design issues that New Yorkers have recently encountered in Brooklyn as a result of the hotly-debated plans to redevelop the Atlantic Yards into an architecture-star mega-development. THE BILBAO EFFECT explores whether architecture has become more of an art than a profession, and at what point the ethics of one field violate the principles of the other.

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