Lies and Legends: Jay Sefton's The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Comments (0) By Steven Leigh Morris Monday, Oct 13 2008

Both groups listened to Ronald Reagan with dismay and perplexity. “He is not truthful,” the aphasiacs reported about the president’s performance — since they couldn’t grasp the meaning of what he was actually saying, only how he said it. Meanwhile, the agnosiacs pointed out the numerous fallacies of the commander-in-chief’s logic.

At the same time, worlds of people beyond that clinic were swooning to the deregulation/privatization mantra of Reagan and England’s prime minister, Maggie Thatcher, fooled into embracing economic policies and an ideology that has led directly to the causes of the current global financial collapse, for which our great-grandchildren will be paying. Thirty years ago, the brain-deficient got it right, clearly grasping what most of the rest of the world could not.

Ed Krieger

Fall from grace: Jay Sefton

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Sefton is concerned that the mostly pedestrian truths of his upbringing, including two loving parents, is too dull for the stage. Dancing around this concern is whether stories, however removed from real facts and experiences, are created to arrive at larger truths or to obfuscate them. It would seem that our inability to tell truth from obfuscation, or, more simply, to tell the truth and to hear it, comes from fundamental breakdowns of intelligence and perception. These maladies also define who we are, and they propel the story of our national fall from grace.

THE MOST MEDIOCRE STORY NEVER TOLD | Written and performed by JAY SEFTON | At META THEATRE, 7801 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood | (323) 960-7780 | Through Oct. 26.