I photographed this production last week at the Odyssey Theatre. Usually when I photograph, I’m cut of from the experience that I’m shooting but this one touched me. Not so much because of the story but mostly because of the fantastic acting.
This production is an Odyssey Theatre Outreach Program with the Los Angeles City College Theatre Department and the actors are so fine, I wish more actors would go to LACC. Seldom do I see a theater production where actors are having this much fun on stage with their characters as well as with each other.
From the Odyssey’s website:
THE ODDS, the Odyssey’s Student Outreach program and Los Angeles City College Theatre Department present Judas Iscariot for a two week run starting May 14th. JUDAS asks tough questions. And the answers aren’t always pleasant. Yet the play is never less than riveting, thanks to the nearly two dozen dynamic characters, among them a gum-smacking saint, radical apostle, cigarette-addicted angel and a fisher of men who misses being out on his boat.
JUDAS is a restlessly smart and fiecely articulate tragi-comedy that combines philosophical musings and Christian tenets with legalese and urban slang in a heady, fiercely written drama, the hard edges of which don’t entirely obscure its tender heart. With a cast of 16 playing almost twice as many characters, JUDAS is a wildly ambitious piece of work and the students, alumni & staff of LACC Theatre Department pull it off with a mighty passion and humanity.
This show is only running until the 24th, so go out there this weekend if you have nothing planed. You will have a great time, no doubt. I haven’t been entertained this much in an LA Theater in a long time!
Tickets range between $10-$30, depending what day you are going and if you are a Senior, an LACC student, a student or neither, but if you get to the theater 2 hours prior to showtime, you can get in at $10 flat.
Thur.-Sat. @ 8pm
Sun. @ 2pm
Ride the Rapid 704 to Sepulveda and take a nice walk heading south to the theater. Or ride your bike and lock it up on their patio rail. I do it all the time and they are cool with it. 
Next time I’m riding out, I will ask them to get some nice bike racks. That would be a real treat, if a theater in LA would put in bike racks!
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