The Idiot, en route to France and Greece, caught his actor son Luke in a new play called Boxing Lessons in Hollywood this weekend. After recently seeing him perform in contemporary versions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Othello and Pericles, it was amusing and relaxing to again catch him in a comedy.
Think your family would be dysfunctional after the patriarch takes his own life and dark secrets are revealed?
Check out Boxing Lessons at The New American Theater in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Times didn’t compare it to the Avengers: Endgame but it’s a fun ride from start to finish.
Boxing Lessons in the Los Angeles Times.
Here’s how to have some boxing lessons without throwing a punch.
The Idiot’s son Luke (right) and brother Kip outside The New American Theater before a performance of Boxing Lessons.
The Idiot’s brother Kip reads the Boxing Lessons program before the riotous one-act play kicks off.
The set of Boxing Lessons before the first line is spoken.
The cast of Boxing Lessons.
(Photo: The New American Theater)
A scene from Boxing Lessons at The New American Theater in Hollywood.
(Photo: The New American Theater)
The Idiot’s son Luke during the curtain call after Boxing Lessons in Hollywood.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."