6 Performances Left, Must Close Sun, Feb 4!

Presented by Different Stages Production
San Diego Premiere
"BUILDING THE WALL"
“There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in “Building the Wall,” the powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era by Robert Schenkkan. You hear it in the distant, unnerving soundscape. You see it as two characters increasingly come to grips with their worst fears. Most of all, you feel it in the gut, because what the writer imagines is not so much a fanciful futurist leap but a calculated cautionary tale, taking place just two years from now” - Frank Rizzo, Variety.
Directed by Jerry Pilato
Only 3 Performances Left!
Schedule:
Fri. February 2 - 8pm
Sat. February 3 - 8pm
Sun. February 4 - 2pm
Tickets: $20 General/$17 Sen./Student/Mil.
Location: Point Loma Playhouse 3035 Talbot St San Diego Ca 92106 at the Historic Point Loma Assembly
San Diego Premiere
"BUILDING THE WALL"
“There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in “Building the Wall,” the powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era by Robert Schenkkan. You hear it in the distant, unnerving soundscape. You see it as two characters increasingly come to grips with their worst fears. Most of all, you feel it in the gut, because what the writer imagines is not so much a fanciful futurist leap but a calculated cautionary tale, taking place just two years from now” - Frank Rizzo, Variety.
Directed by Jerry Pilato
Only 3 Performances Left!
Schedule:
Fri. February 2 - 8pm
Sat. February 3 - 8pm
Sun. February 4 - 2pm
Tickets: $20 General/$17 Sen./Student/Mil.
Location: Point Loma Playhouse 3035 Talbot St San Diego Ca 92106 at the Historic Point Loma Assembly

Building the Wall
January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Over the next sixteen months, events would unravel that test every American’s strength of character: executive actions, an immigration round-up of unprecedented scale, and a declaration of martial law. Rick finds himself caught up as the frontman of the new administration’s edicts and loses his humanity. In a play that recalls George Orwell’sNineteen Eighty-Four the Nazi regime, BUILDING THE WALL is a terrifying and gripping exploration of what happens if we let fear win.
January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Over the next sixteen months, events would unravel that test every American’s strength of character: executive actions, an immigration round-up of unprecedented scale, and a declaration of martial law. Rick finds himself caught up as the frontman of the new administration’s edicts and loses his humanity. In a play that recalls George Orwell’sNineteen Eighty-Four the Nazi regime, BUILDING THE WALL is a terrifying and gripping exploration of what happens if we let fear win.

Robert Schenkkan is a playwright who can dramatize politics, as well demonstrated in his 2014 Tony Award-winning, All the Way, which depicted in engrossing fashion Lyndon B. Johnson’s struggle to get his civil rights bill through Congress. In his latest work, Schenkkan takes on an up-to-the minute brouhaha, President Trump’s anti-immigrant policies. But this time around, Schenkkan is liberally – perhaps too liberally -- mixing fact and fiction, painting a dire picture of what Trump’s policies could lead to. Featuring Joe Paulson as Rick and Lucinda Moaney as Gloria with direction by Jerry Pilato. Point Loma Playhouse presents the premiere of a Different Stages production in San Diego. This two character one act play offers a cautionary look at how fascism can come to define the land of the free in Trump's America.

What they say about the play
“[A] terrifyingly plausible work of dystopian fiction…Step by step, Schenkkan gets us to see the way the collapse of institutions leads to the collapse of morality and the rule of law.”
—LA Times.
“In his mesmerizing two-hander, Schenkkan illustrates the chilling speed at which fascistic tendencies can overtake ordinary Americans.” —Hollywood Reporter.
“At present, BUILDING THE WALL sounds far-fetched; one lesson of the first 100 days is that even presidents must operate within legal confines…but Schenkkan’s project puts down a marker declaring that the American theater always can be—and had better be—a swift-moving imaginative and intellectual platform.” —Washington Post.
“There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in BUILDING THE WALL, [a] powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era…what the writer imagines is not so much a fanciful futurist leap but a calculated cautionary tale…[a] scorcher of a play…” —Variety.
“[A] terrifyingly plausible work of dystopian fiction…Step by step, Schenkkan gets us to see the way the collapse of institutions leads to the collapse of morality and the rule of law.”
—LA Times.
“In his mesmerizing two-hander, Schenkkan illustrates the chilling speed at which fascistic tendencies can overtake ordinary Americans.” —Hollywood Reporter.
“At present, BUILDING THE WALL sounds far-fetched; one lesson of the first 100 days is that even presidents must operate within legal confines…but Schenkkan’s project puts down a marker declaring that the American theater always can be—and had better be—a swift-moving imaginative and intellectual platform.” —Washington Post.
“There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in BUILDING THE WALL, [a] powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era…what the writer imagines is not so much a fanciful futurist leap but a calculated cautionary tale…[a] scorcher of a play…” —Variety.

Lucinda Moaney is excited to be making her Point Loma Playhouse debut and to be working on this pertinent and timely piece. Lucinda was last seen in the Dramedy The Tin Woman and earlier in the year in To Kill a Mockingbird. Lucinda has long been acting in the San Diego community theatre scene while maintaining her 'day job' as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Lucinda's credits include The Violet Hour in which she won the Aubrey Award for best major supporting actress, The Heidi Chronicles, The Sea Horse, Rent, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Bedside Manners, Burkie, and many others. Lucinda wishes to thank her mother Ellen for her never-ending support, her boyfriend Sean for his love, support and understanding, Jerry for casting her and entrusting the character of 'Gloria' to her, Joe for being a great 'Rick' and everyone behind the scenes for making the process easier.

Joe Paulson is celebrating his return to PLP! He was classically trained at Northwestern and Alabama Shakespeare, and has performed professionally in New York and Chicago. Locally, he recently received lovely reviews as Mr. Dussell in Diary of Anne Frank (Moxie), Myron in Awake & Sing (New Village Arts) and as Jonathan in Arsenic & Old Lace (Broadway Theatre at the Welk). He’s also been in over a dozen films and shorts over the past year or so including the lead in Life-O-Matic (Best Horror Short Award - Los Angeles & London Intl. Film Festivals.).
In February, you can come see him in This Random World at North Coast Rep. Love to Hope and Will – Thank you!
In February, you can come see him in This Random World at North Coast Rep. Love to Hope and Will – Thank you!

Jerry Pilato - Director
Jerry comes from San Antonio, Texas where he was Artistic Director for The Actors Theatre of San Antonio from February 1982 to 2005. Most recently he directed the popular Clever Little Lies for The Point Loma Playhouse. He graduated from Toul American High School in France and attended San Antonio College and the University Of The Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Locally he has directed The Foreigner, Love Sex And The IRS and Biloxi Blues at The Sunshine Brooks Theatre in Oceanside; Four Dogs And A Bone, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Orange Flower Water, and Glengarry Glen Ross at Compass Theatre (6th@ Penn) in San Diego; Plaza Suite, Visiting Mr. Green, Weekend Comedy, and The Cemetery Club at The Broadway Theatre in Vista, at Lamplighters Theater The Hallelujah Girls, Stage Fright , The Dixie Swim Club, and Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got The Will. He has been awarded Best Director awards from the Alamo Theatre Arts Council, in San Antonio for Chicago, and When Pigs Fly (musical), I Hate Hamlet and First Night (comedy), American Buffalo, If We Are Women, and Taking Sides (drama). Artistic Director for Different Stages/San Diego he has directed : The Dixie Swim Club, The Psychic, Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom, MOMologues, Race, Last Train To Nibroc, Lone Star Laundry and Bourbon, Santaland Diaries/Season Greetings, and The Eight: The Reindeer Monologues. Also for Different Stages/San Diego he has produced Somewhere In Between, Burn This, The Sea Horse, Wrinkles, American Hero, and The Brothers Lipschitz.
Jerry comes from San Antonio, Texas where he was Artistic Director for The Actors Theatre of San Antonio from February 1982 to 2005. Most recently he directed the popular Clever Little Lies for The Point Loma Playhouse. He graduated from Toul American High School in France and attended San Antonio College and the University Of The Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Locally he has directed The Foreigner, Love Sex And The IRS and Biloxi Blues at The Sunshine Brooks Theatre in Oceanside; Four Dogs And A Bone, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Orange Flower Water, and Glengarry Glen Ross at Compass Theatre (6th@ Penn) in San Diego; Plaza Suite, Visiting Mr. Green, Weekend Comedy, and The Cemetery Club at The Broadway Theatre in Vista, at Lamplighters Theater The Hallelujah Girls, Stage Fright , The Dixie Swim Club, and Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got The Will. He has been awarded Best Director awards from the Alamo Theatre Arts Council, in San Antonio for Chicago, and When Pigs Fly (musical), I Hate Hamlet and First Night (comedy), American Buffalo, If We Are Women, and Taking Sides (drama). Artistic Director for Different Stages/San Diego he has directed : The Dixie Swim Club, The Psychic, Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom, MOMologues, Race, Last Train To Nibroc, Lone Star Laundry and Bourbon, Santaland Diaries/Season Greetings, and The Eight: The Reindeer Monologues. Also for Different Stages/San Diego he has produced Somewhere In Between, Burn This, The Sea Horse, Wrinkles, American Hero, and The Brothers Lipschitz.
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