Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 in a fit of white heat as a diatribe against the general public and the politicians, and as revenge for the vicious attacks they visited upon his earlier play Ghosts. He was angered by the irrational tendencies of the masses, who were appalled by his […]
Archives for October 2012
Holly Down in Heaven
Holly is a precocious 15-year-old. She knows the fine points of quantum physics, and she’s in her school’s gifted and talented program. She is also pregnant, and a recent convert to born-again Christianity.
Fly
Fly is a soaring piece of work that portrays a sense of the battles faced by the Tuskegee Airmen even before they took to the sky. Co- written by Ricardo Khan and Trey Ellis, and beautifully directed by Khan, Fly brings history to life in depicting four black aviators who beat the odds and flew […]
The Rape of Lucrece
Whenever a Shakespeare play is “modernized,” “updated,” or otherwise altered to appeal to a contemporary audience, it’s important to be skeptical, for we would hate to witness a poor reinvention of the wheel. The catch with Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s new production at the Capital Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) is that Shakespeare’s “The Rape of […]
The return of P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical to Imagination Stage
As a celebration of youthful exuberance and a medium for entertaining young people, P.Nokio is first-rate. Imagination Stage already has a well-deserved reputation for supporting new playwrights and fostering theatrical experiments that stretch the boundaries of the tried and true. Author/director Psalmayene 24, “Psalm”, is a home grown D.C. area artist. In backing Psalm’s effort […]