If most teenage girls described their brother as a beast, we would chalk it up to youthful exaggeration.  In Ariadne’s case it is literally true since her half-brother is The Minotaur, the eponymous character in Rorschach Theatre’s joint world premiere of a quirky, thoughtful, and entertaining new play by Anna Ziegler. [Read more...]

Routine can be both comforting and confining, offering stability while constructing artificial walls that silently guide our daily lives. In their jaw-dropping production of Rob Handel’s A Maze, Rorschach Theatre explores the depths of our own prisons in an arresting portrait of obsession, addiction, and fear of the unknown.  [Read more...]

“When Jane Goodall Goes Bad!” could be the banner headline for The Gallerist, a delectably lurid tale about demonic possession and soul survival by playwright Fengar Gael that is staged with purplish passion by Rorschach Theater.  [Read more...]

We have, by virtue of our earthquake last August, an inkling of what the people of Kobe, Japan suffered sixteen years ago. The deep inharmonious rumble – the incomprehensible undulation of the floor – the evacuation – the questions; the weak jokes – and everywhere, the chittering of television news reports. Now add to that chunks of buildings falling out of the sky, clouds of toxic dust, screams of the dying and their sudden silence, and a sense of irreparable loss, and we learn what the Japanese knew then: that an earthquake can make the sturdiest of things – buildings, dams, nuclear power plants – as delicate as spun glass. What can it do to something as fragile as the human psyche? [Read more...]

Rorschach is back.  Voices Underwater, is an eerie experiential journey which shows that, after an eighteen month hiatus, Rorschach hasn’t lost its touch. [Read more...]

I suppose it was inevitable that someone would one day watch Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” speech and wonder – why not have both? And thus we now have Living Dead in Denmark – [Read more...]

A complex middle-aged protagonist, deadened by experiences and compromises, engages in an eventful day of episodic wandering in a major city.  Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City, a modern riff on James Joyce’s “Ulysses” [Read more...]