There’s something about a Neil Simon play that gets to you after the final curtain. A realization bubbles to the surface that, under the comedic foibles of the characters he creates, there’s a truth about the endurance of the human spirit. Despite ourselves, we can bounce back from emotional hardship and see love.
“Red,” the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about the meaning of art, is really about the meaning of life. Four times the question is asked, “What do you see?” And ultimately the answer is, “What does life mean?”
If you saw the show at the Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art, 900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, when it opened last month, you haven’t seen the show. “He came into town the other day and changed the big piece on the back wall,” gallery owner Amanda Harris said. “He put a wash over it and put his mug shot over it.”
