{"id":1444,"date":"2017-08-03T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2017-08-03T16:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T21:59:38","slug":"comrades-frati-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/comrades-frati-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrades, Frati, Brothers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was one of those annoying kids who was always showing off. I put on plays for my parents, forcing my little sister to be incidental characters. I think I cast her as a dog once.<\/p>\n

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In high school I had lead roles in both senior plays. Before that I was cast as a 16 year old Ebeneezer Scrooge in a Sacramento Parks & Recreation teen workshop production of A Christmas Carol<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As an adult I’ve acted in and directed dozens of plays and in the process I came to write a few.<\/p>\n

That’s where my friend Florin found me.<\/p>\n

Florin Piersic Jr.<\/a> read my first play,\u00a0Brothers!,<\/em>\u00a0and liked it so much he produced, directed and starred in its first professional staging at the National Theatre in Timisoara, Romania, three months ago — 17 years after he first read it.<\/p>\n

I flew to Romania to attend the opening. The show was magical even though I didn’t understand a word of my own dialogue.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Florin brought me onto the stage for the curtain call. We hugged in the spotlight, our first in-person meeting after swapping emails for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n

Florin is a wonderful actor, a ruggedly handsome man, gentle and soft-spoken off stage; fearless before his audience.<\/p>\n

Tonight he’s in Hollywood for the premier of an Amazon Prime TV production, Comrade Detective<\/em><\/a>, in which he costars with Channing Tatum, who lends his voice to Florin’s bold on-camera performance.<\/p>\n

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Florin Piersic Jr.
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Comrade Detective<\/em> exhibits Florin’s physical acting skills while withholding his perfectly nuanced vocal delivery.<\/p>\n

You can’t spring this much talent on America all at once.<\/p>\n

Rupe un picior, prietene, Florin!<\/p>\n

Break a leg, my friend.<\/p>\n

(PS. After publishing this I was informed by another Romanian friend that there is no such expression as \"break a leg\", meaning \"good luck\", in the Romanian language. What I said here was apparently a sincere and friendly wish that Florin should literally break a leg...and not necessarily his own! This is why I love words.)<\/em><\/pre>\n