| When: | Back to Calendar December 10, 2011 @ 8:00 PM | Where: | AGBU PASADENA CENTER 2495 E. Mountain Street Pasadena,CA 91104 USA |
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| Categories: | Cultural Committee |
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AGBU ARDAVAZT THEATRE COMPANY–YERVANT ODIAN’S “SER YEV DZIDZAGH”
COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:00 P.M.
Scene from “Yev Dzidzagh”
BY ARAM KOUYOUMDJIAN
“Ser Yev Dzidzagh” (Love and Laughter) is not a play that Yervant Odian – the Armenian satirist who forever dwells in Hagop Baronian’s shadow – ever wrote; rather, it is an amalgam of three of his works. Still, as staged by the Ardavazt Theatre Company, it proves to be a lively piece of entertainment that offers genuine laughs – and a welcome respite from the lackluster scripts that have hampered the troupe’s last few outings.
I first have to commend the production for its prompt start time. I have been on a warpath for a while now against “Armenian time,” a ridiculous term that bespeaks tardiness due to disorganization. So it was a pleasure to watch the lights dim and the performance begin within a minute or two of the appointed hour.
Speaking of time, the play itself is date