There are parties, fistfights, sexy ladies and playboys, a hitchhiker, drunks and people living in a boiler. And then there’s a scientist named Doc Ricketts, who catches frogs and starfish in the tide pools off the shore of Monterey in the 1930s.
All of these characters are portrayed by the 35 actors playing over seventy roles in John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row,” directed by Christine Nicholson, at the main stage of City College’s Performing Arts Center.
The set invokes Monterey right down to the starfish on the rocks.
“I play a frog living in the tide pools until Doc Ricketts captures me,” say actor Natalie Farrell of the Ricketts character portrayed by Michael Sicilia.
”’Cannery Row’” takes place between the Great Depression and World War II,” Farrell says.
“I play the Town Cop,” says Vernon Lewis, “[who] is the narrator of the play.” Lewis plays more than one role, as do many of the other actors in the play.
“The cast is ethnically diverse, and there is always something to see,” says Farrell, who also plays more than one character.
A live four-piece band plays popular music of the era throughout the production.
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Both Farrell and Lewis agree that “Cannery Row” is a dramedy.
“There are some funny scenes, but it has serious scenes, too,” Lewis says.
“Cannery Row” can be seen through March 23. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $12 for students and seniors to $15 general admission for evening performances. Matinee prices are $10 to $13.
There is something for the whole family—adults, college students and little children—in the City College theatre arts department between “Cannery Row” and the Storytime Theatre production of “Goldilocks.”
“‘Goldilocks’ is only 30 minutes, which is just about right for the children in the audience,” says Lewis, who is acting in both productions. “I like acting in children’s theater, because the children get involved in the story, and I feed off of their participation and energy.”
“I play Papa Bear, but I wear all brown clothes and brown spat shoes. Mama Bear and Baby Bear are funny, but all my movements are pretty straight,” says Lewis. “And there is a wolf.”
“Goldilocks,” directed by Matt K. Miller, is performed on weekends at noon at City College’s new Little Theater at PAC 106 through April 6. Tickets are $5 and children under 2 are admitted free.
