Emma (Katie Atkinson), an assistant in a laboratory dedicated to the preservation of dying languages, is trying to learn Esperanto. She is having heavy weather of it. Finally she blurts out “I love George,” – George is her married boss at the lab. The instructor (Kerri Rambow) commands her – in Esperanto, of course – […]
Archives for February 20, 2012
Mike Daisey takes on Apple apologists, and invites performers to do his show, royalty free
How Mike Daisey has changed America Mike Daisey brought his provocative, withering attack on the state of regional theater, How Theater Failed America, to Woolly Mammoth in 2009. Why are successful actors “traveling like migrant farmhands”, he asked. Why are theatres taking fewer risks? Why is attendance declining even as the need for people to […]
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is rightfully considered one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” with its dark overtones of anti-Semitism and a feud between a Jew standing obstinately with the Old Testament (“Cursed be my tribe if I forgive him.”) and Christians clinging righteously to the New (“The quality of mercy is never strained.”). Shakespeare does not make […]