Hermosa Beach About Town
‘Distracted’ premiers at 2nd Story Thanks to the stern admonitions to silence or turn off phones that precede a play, theaters are one of the few places where people can get away from screen time. After viewing “Distracted,” which opens at the Community Center’s 2nd Story Theater this weekend, audiences may keep their phones concealed for a little while longer. “The statement of the play is that in such an over-communicated world, we have so much tech that it is keeping us from really communicating with one another and being intimate. We are constantly being distracted by beeps, buzzes, ringtones. It’s all getting in the way of real life,” said Jack Messenger, the show’s co-producer, and director. “Distracted” was written by Lisa Loomer and premiered in 2007. It tells the story of Jesse, a nine-year-old boy acting up. His misbehavior causes the adult characters in the play to advance their own explanations, including that he is suffering from ADD, and lets the audience wonder whether Jesse is “dysfunctional” or merely different. Messenger, a Manhattan Beach resident, and his wife Lois Bourgon, a co-producer, first encountered the play at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los…
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