http://dctheatrescene.com Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website Fri, 25 May 2012 19:37:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website DC Theatre Scene no Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website http://dctheatrescene.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://dctheatrescene.com http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:14:46 +0000 Richard Seff http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=3431 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/05/love-peace-and-robbery/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/05/love-peace-and-robbery/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:09:20 +0000 Tim Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2962 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/05/love-peace-and-robbery/feed/ 3 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/02/glengarry-glen-ross/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/02/glengarry-glen-ross/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:44:42 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2900 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/02/glengarry-glen-ross/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/19/dublin-carol/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/19/dublin-carol/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:09:55 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2762 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/19/dublin-carol/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/24/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/24/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:17:22 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2459 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/24/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/05/stones-in-his-pockets-2/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/05/stones-in-his-pockets-2/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:26:06 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=1887 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/05/stones-in-his-pockets-2/feed/ 2 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:11:25 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:17:22 +0000 Ronnie Ruff http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 17:45:46 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/feed/ 1 irish theatre,solas nua By Owen McCafferty Produced by Solas Nua and Tinderbox Theatre Company (Belfast) Directed by Des Kennedy Reviewed by Tim Treanor In Mojo/Mickybo, Owen McCafferty's two-man tragedy staged by Keegan last January, Belfast bled all over the stage, By Owen McCafferty Produced by Solas Nua and Tinderbox Theatre Company (Belfast) Directed by Des Kennedy Reviewed by Tim Treanor In Mojo/Mickybo, Owen McCafferty's two-man tragedy staged by Keegan last January, Belfast bled all over the stage, as the City's ceaseless Catholic-Protestant conflict made mincemeat out of two young boys' friendship, and out of everything else.  Rona Munro mined similar territory in last year's Bold Girls, and many other writers have explored the same thing.  Indeed, a theatrical company could easily plan a full season around staged examinations of The Troubles, and how they have robbed life of value in that benighted land. Scenes from the Big Picture is something else entirely.  More scenes than big picture, the play is a cross-section of the life of the city, and of its inhabitants.  Belfast is a hard town, and hard lives are lived there, but aside from an astonishing discovery that two young men (Joe Isenberg and Eric Messner) make about their dead father, the scenes do not touch upon The Troubles.  Instead, they are about the small dramas and epiphanies any one of us might have, even in a place as odd as Washington, D.C. There are, for example, scenes from the lives of Dave and Theresa Black (Brian Hemmingsen and Nanna Ingvarsson), whose son disappeared - and doubtlessly died - fifteen years ago to the day.  They hold out no hope for his recovery, but Dave lives for the day when the police will find the body.  He has become a Victim, while Theresa has become an Executive at the failing abattoir which appears to employ most of the neighborhood.   Displacement in time is their source of conflict.  She wants to ignore the past in order to live in the future.  He wants to live in the past and let the future take care of itself. Or consider scenes in the life of Joe Hynes (Jason McCool), a man whose allergy to moral choice allows him to betray all he comes into contact with, including his baby-obsessed wife Maeve (Madeleine Burke), his mistress Helen Woods (Stephanie Roswell), and the members of the Union which elected him shop steward when the cool-eyed Theresa induces him to permit the unloading of a meat packer without guaranty of payment.  Or what about Robbie Mullin (Patrick Bussink), a small-time drug dealer to whose junkie girlfriend Connie Dean (Madeline Carr) he assigns lookout responsibilities?  Connie's dalliance with two slack-jawed teenagers, Swiz Murdoch and Bop Torbett (Kevin O'Reilly and Jon Reynolds) has grave consequences that neither she nor we anticipate.  Or what about Bop's dad Bobbie (John C. Bailey), who follows his attendance at the funeral for a despised man with a boozy afternoon spent with two dipsomaniacal buddies, Shanks O'Neill (John Brennan) and Sharon Lawther (Ellie Nicoll)?  Or Bop himself, who ignores overtures from the gorgeous Maggie Lyttle (Paloma Ellis) because he is so intent on impressing Maggie's hoodlum boyfriend, Cooper Jones (Joe Baker)?  Or what about the elderly shopkeeper Sammy Lennon (Don Kenefick) and his wife Betty (Declan Cashman), who has a secret she cannot bring herself to tell? These scenes and characters bounce around each other without ever losing their individuality, like molecules in a superheated chamber.  Robbie gives the conservative Betty a lift to the hospital in a car loaded with drug paraphernalia, and laughs about it later with Connie.  Cooper steals bottled water from Sammy, and later sends Bop on a mission to steal rolling papers.  Dave and Theresa argue about whether she should take time off from her job at the abattoir, while the never-seen owner tries desperately to stave off bankruptcy.  Bobbie, Shanks and Sharon drink at Helen's bar, and later Helen agrees to give Bop a job.  These are the ordinary events which befall ordinary people, even ourselves, in an ordinary town, even our own.  And yet they achieve a sort of nobility, as the human endeavor itself is noble in its ordinariness. What emerges is huge, diffuse, DC Theatre Scene no http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:34 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/feed/ 0 Interviews,irish theatre,solas nua Belfast director Des Kennedy is in town to direct his first U. S. production, Solas Nua's Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty (Mojo/ Mickybo). Callie Kimball, popular DC playwright and actress, leads Des in a lively conversation about the da... Belfast director Des Kennedy is in town to direct his first U. S. production, Solas Nua's Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty (Mojo/ Mickybo). Callie Kimball, popular DC playwright and actress, leads Des in a lively conversation about the day-in-Belfast play, his take on American actors, his unusual techniques for rehearsing Big Picture's 21 member cast, and the role The Laramie Project has played on his career. Finally, the 24-year director shares his discoveries in theater and upcoming projects. Listen here. Or play by clicking on the speaker icon Scenes from the Big Picture runs through June 24th at the Callan Theatre, Catholic University. For more information, visit the Solas Nua website. (Run time: 18:57) DC Theatre Scene no http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:21:13 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:56:04 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/feed/ 2 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:16:28 +0000 Ronnie Ruff http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:13:51 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:58:53 +0000 Ronnie Ruff http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:26:10 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:51:37 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2005/06/28/18/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2005/06/28/18/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:56:14 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/24/18/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2005/06/28/18/feed/ 0