Joquin Torres in Brooklyn At Eye Level
Last Saturday I had the pleasure and honor of seeing one of the best plays I have seen in quite some time. The play "Brooklyn At Eye Level" was an inspirational and eclectic mix of personalities surrounding The Atlantic Yards development project. For all of you who don't know what that is, it is essentially a Frank Gehry and Forrester City Ratner project that involves building a stadium for the Brooklyn Nets as well as develop the surrounding area with homes and businesses in Downtown Brooklyn. Needless to say there are a number of points of view about the project and everyone has a different opinion about what that means to the fabric of Brooklyn. This play attempts to provide a voice for many of the people involved, from the shop keeper to the borough president. The cast was superb and each of the characters were actual characters interviewed for this project. Joaquin Torres was at his best when he embodied a whole range of strong personalities and ends the night with a song that brought the house down. If you get a chance to see the play when it comes to town again, you will not be disappointed and you may actually learn something.
