This weekend’s Big [Box] performances at Cleveland Public Theatre include two new pieces written by Cleveland poet and playwright Mary Weems and directed by Tony Sias. Wearing Rainbows features a series of monologues recited onstage by local women. The readers span race, sexual orientation, and age, and they’re all tied together by their concept of hope. In the more desolate Numbers, a runner for a bookie muses on mental health issues. Ghosts of former insane-asylum patients also chime in on the subject.
Feb. 2-3, 7 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 4, 3 p.m.
This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2007.