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LA Theater Critic’s Choice: "Little Armenia"

THEATER CRITIC’S CHOICE: "LITTLE ARMENIA"

LA City Beat, CA
Aug. 17, 2006

In the neighborhood surrounding the Fountain Theatre, an immigrant
couple frets that their daughter wants to marry an outsider – an
Icelandic American. Meanwhile, an Armenian American teenager falls
in with a shady garbage collector, and two women worry about losing
their waitress jobs if a restaurant moves to Glendale. These are
among the narrative strands that intertwine in this research-based
play by three authors: Lory Bedikian, Aram Kouyoumdjian and Shahe
Mankerian. It sounds like a recipe for sprawl, but Armina LaMann’s
staging is remarkably concise and consistent in tone. The text balances
warm emotion with a few less than flattering perspectives and a wealth
of local color – the narrator’s home is on a street only a half-block
from the theater.

-Don Shirley
The Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave., Hollywood, (323) 663-1525.
Thurs.-Sats. at 8 p.m.; Suns. at 2 p.m. Closes Sept. 3.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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