What’s changed in the thirty-five years since Beth Henley wrote Crimes of the Heart that makes it feel outdated? It’s hard to pinpoint any obvious factors, since the story is a very personal, observational one about three sisters, with its politics subtle and non-dogmatic. Yet one cannot help but leave the theatre feeling that – […]
Archives for February 29, 2016
Antigone Project at Rep Stage (review)
Whether ancient Greece or modern megalopolises, women get a raw deal. The classic Greek playwright Sophocles wrote about this human predicament enduringly in his Oedipus plays, which charted a family curse cruelly played out from generation to generation. One of them, Antigone, shows a young woman defying capricious laws and politics to do what is […]