When asked about how she comes up with ideas for her plays (which, let me tell you from personal experience, is every writer’s favorite interview question), playwright, director, and filmmaker Young Jean Lee has said that she focuses in on what scares her the most to write about at that particular moment in her life […]
Archives for May 28, 2019
Best Medicine Rep’s got 4 comedies for Season 3
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV’s only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 production, and two world premieres for 2020. Helen on Wheels will kick off the season. Cricket Daniel’s comedy is about Helen the hellion Wheeler, […]
Review: Klytemnestra: An Epic Slam Poem, a courageous act of revolution in the Trump era
Dane Figueroa Edidi is many things. She is a playwright, poet, choreographer, performance artist, priestess, and advocate. She is also a Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous transgender woman. To understand Klytemnestra: An Epic Slam Poem at Theater Alliance is to witness all aspects of her identity laid bare on the stage, and not only acknowledge them, but […]
Review: Ghost Light from Parlor Room Theater
When a stage manager places a single incandescent light bulb on a stand, front and center on a stage, it has a practical reason. The “ghost light” provides safety in the dark for living beings, and, the superstition goes, the ghosts of actors as well. It’s the perfect title for this ghostly theater tale conjured […]
Review: Antigonick and The Fragments of Sappho from Taffety Punk
“how to translate [Antigone]?”, Anne Carson self-reflexes in her translator’s note to the Sophokles classic. “I take inspiration from John Cage who, when asked / how he composed 4’33”, answered / ‘I built it up gradually out of many small pieces of silence.’” I begin with the translator because Taffety Punk’s double feature of Antigonick […]