– a play written in rhyming couplets and so your reviewer rises to the challenge – If you teach a poet two hundred years’ dead, it’s not surprising that you could be led to a dalliance, but the stakes get raised when your taste for outdoor sex leaves you appraised in your humping by the […]
Archives for November 4, 2013
Inventing Van Gogh
A miserable and lonely artist is invited to paint a Van Gogh forgery. He initially spurns the offer, but when he later contemplates going along with the scheme he finds his reality blended with the world of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and other historical characters. That is the intriguing setup for Steven Dietz’s Inventing Van Gogh, […]
The Summoning of Everyman
It is a bold company which reaches back to 1530 to launch its season, and a bolder company still to stage a play about making account to God in this relentlessly secular city and age. But the principal commendation which The Edge of the Universe Players 2 earns for producing The Summoning of Everyman is […]
Man of the House (Or: How I Tracked Down My Dad, the Spy)
Pablito’s father abandoned his wife and seven-year-old son with the parting admonition that Pablito would have to be the “man of the house.” Pablito is left with a man-sized hole in his heart that six years later causes him to search for his father in Man of the House, an emotionally involving world premiere Kennedy […]
Betrayal
Harold Pinter arrived on the London theatre scene in the mid 1950s along with John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Edward Bond, David Storey and Arnold Wesker, among other playwrights who were determined to shake things up. His early plays were dark and mysterious, often obscure, seemingly naturalistic plays with simple titles like The Birthday Party, The […]