PLAY: 'K2' a slick production

| January 11, 2013 8:36 PM

The Lake City Playhouse is serving us all a treat with Patrick Meyers’ play, “K2.” The K2 Expedition Team members, movingly performed by Todd Kehne and George Green, reminded me of 3 things:

• That friendship is a great peril we risk to our eternal benefit;

• That spirit and science, religion and quantum physics return us to the essential mystery of love;

• And that live theater can transform a story into an allegory that both confronts and comforts even a seasoned movie-goer.

Troy Nickerson’s direction is spot on, Dan Heggem’s lighting is haunting, David Clemons’ scenic paint fairly shimmers of ice and slick rock face. I do hope the ingenious set designed and constructed by George Green and Rustin Hall helps the production keep within strict set erection time-limits for the upcoming regional and national one-act competitions so that Michelle Holland’s production carries the day. Plays like this are why we risk live theater! Now until January 20th. Adult themes and language.

EILEEN DOOHAN

Coeur d’Alene