Director Ross Williams has an nice, inventive touch, and his production of Titus Andronicus is filled with small but effective flourishes. There is, for example, the large, lit-up target that brandishes the back of the stage, which offers some effective foreshadowing when the newly-minted emperor Saturninus (Vince Gatton) stands in front of it and raises his arms in […]
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Carcass is a play about Jews yelling at each other. Avrush (David Greenspan) yells at his stepdaughter Reyz’l (Rebekah Levin) for being like her “shrew” mother Brayne (Kathryn Rossetter). Reyz’l yells at her stepbrother Mend’l (Alvin Keith) for smelling like animal hides. And Brayne yells at Avrush for being a drunk. It’s enough to drive […]
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August Strindberg, who isn’t known for his cheerfulness, was especially depressed while composing what he called the “child of my greatest pain” and considered suicide two months before completing it: “The impulse to die by my own hand grows stronger,” he wrote in his diary. The finished work, A Dream Play, reads a bit like […]
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