• Dark Rapture
• By Eric Overmyer
• Directed by Paul Takacs
• Produced by Spooky Action Theater
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

Samuel Johnson once called second marriages the triumph of hope over experience.  Spooky Action’s decision to tackle an Eric Overmyer play might have been an example of the same thing.  But this time, hope – and Spooky Action – is triumphant.

About two years ago, a major Washington theater produced Eric Overmyer’s big opus, On the Verge - a play so fraught with significance that it had a subtitle.  (“The Geography of Yearning.”)  It was, I think, an unfortunate experience, and the responsibility was unquestionably Overmyer’s.  Anachronistic, obscure, full of implausible dialogue and lousy jokes, it was a prime example of The Hollywood Scriptwriter Turned Into Sophocles, and all the gaudy production values associated with the production could not gainsay it. [Read more...]