Since 2013, the 4615 Theatre has popped up in many different corners of DC, from basements and backyards to Woolly Mammoth’s rehearsal hall. We mount innovative stagings of classical and contemporary works (last year we paired Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore), pulling off massive spectacles on an intimate scale. This time, our home will be […]
Archives for July 20, 2016
Whisper Into My Good Ear, Capital Fringe (review)
Whisper Into My Good Ear features two old men sitting on a bench talking for about an hour. They talk about mortality. They talk about the indignities of aging bodies, loss of eyesight, declining hearing. They talk about the creeping onset of dementia. They talk, and they argue, and they jibe, and they joke, and they […]
Deb Margolin’s 8 Stops at Unexpected Stage (review)
Deb Margolin approaches the stage with deliberate movements and looks into the eyes of the audience with the ease of someone comfortable with their own story and on a mission to share. A series of monologues, the opening pieces relay the two basic elements that form the crux of her story-line: a maternal sense of caring, […]
banished? productions on saying goodbye with one last Fringe show
In , she took me back so tenderly, loss and regeneration shape-shift, dance, cling, fold, blink, burn and are filed away into multiple experiences that inform our present moment. If we have ever lost something – keys, cities, identities, loves – we have had to confront the same questions the show tries to trace: What […]