Living to Tell the Tale
Real stories, real people, on stage in Hermosa Beach It’s a new take on an old concept. People have often unburdened themselves to strangers — on airplanes, trains, or sitting around a campfire. Presumably these confessions are unrehearsed, but imagine a similar scenario in which several men and women, one after another, get up on stage and for eight, nine minutes spill the beans about something personal in their lives. If it’s been written down and edited and rehearsed, to where it’s no longer spontaneous, it is now something else, a kind of staged reading or play? Let’s take a closer look and find out. “The South Bay Stories Show,” which has two engagements or performances, if you will, takes place on Saturday evening at 7:30 and on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 in the Second Story Theater, located in the Hermosa Beach Community Center. It’s being produced by Jim Mueller, and directed by Tony Torrisi. Torrisi was frequently involved with the Palos Verdes Players, one of the last area theater companies that often took chances with new or offbeat work. Although Torrisi is now based farther up the coast, he’s back on familiar turf and we didn’t miss the opportunity to catch up and to…
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