Folger’s gorgeous, sumptuous Mary Stuart is a bodice-ripper for the brainy, distilling a life-and-death moment to its constituent elements of pride, resentment, entitlement and loss. It is a dissection – not bloodless but full of torrential passion – of human values on the stage of history. On the one side is God-ordained righteousness, and the […]
Archives for February 3, 2015
Life after – Half Life (a zombie love letter for no one) at Flashpoint
Regina—a sassy and, somewhat trashy small town mess—gets wasted, crashes her truck, and awakes on the “other side.” Well, kinda. Instead of fully crossing into the afterlife, she’s stuck trudging through a purgatory poignantly reimagined through pop-culture’s current “It” ghoul: the Zombie. No one in Regina’s rural town readily accepts her malformed state, what with […]