“My Lord, why have you abandoned me?” cries Jesus, his last words from his heart that rock our souls without deadening our ears. Argentine actor, the gifted Mariano Mazzei as Jesus, looks directly at us from the cross, and into our souls with penetrating eyes. And in playwright Mariano Moro’s stunning poetic outpouring in Jesucristo, […]
Archives for October 19, 2012
DruidMurphy: A Whistle in the Dark
A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy, bears all the marks of a work of that club, dubbed “angry young men,” who penned gritty, primal works that rocked audiences and revolutionized British theatre in the 1960’s. A Whistle in the Dark, the Irish playwright’s first full length play was written at the age of […]
DruidMurphy: Conversations on a Homecoming
The only thing more prevalent than the full-bodied beer in Druid‘s marvelous play at the Kennedy Center is the feel of the lonely wind coming off Galway Bay and pushing at the backs of these characters, reminding us all that they are clinging to a land’s end in more ways than one. Stoked by both, […]