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Distracted. Lisa Loomer. Author bio(s). ISBN: Full Length Everyone is distracted, even the actors—they’re breaking character! A hilarious. Distracted, the new socially conscious dramedy from Lisa Loomer now receiving its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, is largely about. In a narrow sense, Lisa Loomer’s “Distracted” is about a married It was as if he had stepped out of Loomer’s script, a living illustration of her.

Actors periodically dropped character and spoke as themselves.

It’s implied that the panic attack he has about the fire drill is a direct result of the drugs and not part of his condition that was heightened by them, as the doctor explains is common. A very underated play. Interesting but the end trivializes the setup.

diistracted Trivia About Distracted – Acti I am cast in this play as Sherry. Is Jesse dysfunctional, or just different? And Mama’s on a quest for answe Click here for ePlay. Distracted – Acting Edition by Lisa Loomer. Published December 31st by Dramatists Play Service.

I’m going to address what the previous two said loomed explain what they don’t understand about Distracted. It’s become nearly impossible to create any personal sense of peace and harmony when we’re constantly being bombarded with the visual and aural vulgarities of news reports, phone solicitations, pop-up ads, profanity-laden music, overtly sexual advertising, and neon-laced billboards.

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Karnes “breaking character” to go on the record about how much Ritalin has helped. Like Distrracted Waiting Roomwhich exposed the health problems resulting from the long-standing collusion of the medical community in forcing women to change their bodies to fit male notions of female beauty, Distracted engages the medical community and its complex loimer in our lives—and illustrates that the solution is sometimes worse than the problem.

However, there is one obvious one, which becomes clear if not a little pat at the end of the show. Most Popular in arts Right Arrow.

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His teacher thinks it’s Attention Deficit Disorder. Bella rated it did not like it Oct 23, The interactive set allowed the characters to move loimer and effectively through the space, shifting from the wall of televisions to the simplicity of a suburban kitchen by moving a few panels.

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His teacher thinks it’s Attention Deficit Disorder. As in these earlier dramas, Loomer blends Brechtian staging techniques with American realism in order to playfully comment on the psychological and social impact of conventional medical wisdom and, in doing so, has created a drama with ADD Attention-Deficit Disorder as her subject. When the couple sees a specialist to talk about Jesse, he looks down at his cellphone; when they go out to dinner, he peruses his tablet at the table.

The main characters are all very relatable but only to people who have been in similar situations.

Distracted review Kevin J. Subscribe to The Boston Globe today. Account Options Sign in. But Loomer has broader satiric points to make about a more generalized scrlpt of cultural ADD, one that stems from our fixation on the large screens that surround us at home or work and the smaller screens that we carry around with us.

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