Moxie Theatre looks at the big business of getting chill in San Diego premiere of 'Yoga Play'

May 9, 2019 3:09 PM PT

What is the price of enlightenment? It could be a pretty penny — depending on how decked out you want to be for your next yoga class.

The Indian-born playwright Dipika Guha’s “Yoga Play,” which is about to receive its local premiere at the women-centered Moxie Theatre, takes a comic look at a scandal unfolding at a company that sells pricey athletic apparel. (Any resemblance to real-life events is not necessarily accidental.)

In her Moxie directing debut, Callie Prendiville stages the piece with a cast headed by Jo Anne Glover — a Moxie co-founder and real-life yoga teacher who plays a newly hired CEO struggling to save the company.

Sri Chilukuri, Albert Park, Tamara Rodriguez and Matthew Salazar-Thompson also appear in “Yoga Play,” the final production in Moxie’s 2018-19 season.

‘Yoga Play’

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Through June 2.

Where: Moxie Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd., Rolando District.

Tickets: $15-$30 (discounts available)

Phone: (858) 598-7620

Online: moxietheatre.com

James Hebert

James Hebert is The San Diego Union-Tribune’s theater critic, and has covered the San Diego arts scene for more than two decades. He earned his master’s degree at Columbia University in New York and worked as a magazine editor in Boston before joining the U-T. Hebert’s awards include a national arts-writing prize from the Society for Features Journalism (for a profile of the choreographer Twyla Tharp), and some two dozen local and regional journalism honors; his work also has been republished in two college writing textbooks. In 2009, Hebert served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.