Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano is a difficult masterpiece. Subtitled Anti-play, it is, along with Waiting for Godot, a quintessential work of Theatre of the Absurd. The action is set in a living room on an “English evening” in which the Smiths are having the Martins over for dinner—the drama is essentially plotless, and consists mostly of the couples’ […]
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A six-person Shakespearean production is a tricky thing to stage. Actors and costume designers struggle with creating distinct characters, kings are executed only to reappear as rogues, and, since the small cast is often a monetary necessity, players tend to botch the language and confuse the action; the end result is the kind of stultifying […]
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Anything but a thoroughly horrendous production of King John would be worth seeing simply by virtue of the fact that the play is unfairly under-produced: its last run on Broadway lasted for under a month back in 1915 and in almost sixty years it has only been staged four times at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
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