Forster (adapt. David Keohane): The Machine Stops

THEATER
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020
6:30 PM

Bedlam Theater "Do More" Virtual Benefit Reading
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Free (registration required for Zoom) (donation requested)
https://bedlam.org/benefit-reading/

Bedlam does these Zoomed readings right. That's almost certainly because the stripped-down, unadorned style of presentation the company employs in live performance lends itself to remote performances from the actors' separate apartments, viewed on each audience member's monitor in their own apartments. Tonight they do a theatrical adaptation of E.M. Forster's prophetic dystopian sci-fi story (yeah, Forster wrote those, too) that predicted globalization, social media, and other current excrescences.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Believe it or not, the Missouri Mule is an English cocktail (and isn't a mule-type cocktail but rather is named after Missouri's state animal): pour 3/4 oz. each of Bourbon, Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy, and lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. each of Campari and Cointreau (or other Triple Sec) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.