By Kathy Cook Hunter
Summer Lightning, written and directed by Silverton resident Michael Smith, comes to the Brush Creek Playhouse stage for three weekends beginning June 11.
Described as a backstage comedy, the two-hour play portrays actors preparing to go on stage as they apply makeup and put on costumes. They’re doing a Greek tragedy, Phaedra, the story of a woman who is cursed by the gods to fall in love with her stepson. The play is presented within the play, similar to the well-known comedy Noises Off.
“The reason I chose Phaedra is because it’s a great story – a classical, dramatic story,” said Smith. “I describe it as a tragedy inside a comedy.”
Formerly a resident of New York City as well as several other American cities.
