How do you put genocide on stage? Lauren Yee starts with a rock band, which is playing so loudly when we enter that the theater management offers ear plugs for any who request it. A rock concert may seem an odd, even inappropriate, way for a play about genocide to begin, but what comes next […]
Archives for March 2, 2020
Review: This Bitter Earth, an inspired production of a boundaries crossing love story
The Theater Alliance production of This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers is a lusty, delirious, time-suspending and pulse-pounding journey. It is also – as intimated by the title – both a vigil that is being kept for hope and “chronicle of a death foretold.” Instead of being related to us in a linear way, […]
Opera review: Samson and Delilah. Modern technicals make this rarely seen story “an opera for the senses”
Opening night came on a Sunday afternoon for Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns. It’s an opera not seen in Washington for ages, and, headlined by the ravishing J’Nai Bridges, the event was highly anticipated. The production moved like a rolling dreamscape, an opera for the senses – and especially the heart. We hear a […]
Review: Henry IV, Part 2, as ASC’s Renaisance actors will it
Imagine there’s no director — it’s easy if you try — and no designers too. Imagine further that the actors, amidst their other theatrical responsibilities, must put this play together in ten days or so, not only learning the complex language but determining the blocking, deciding what (if any) props are to be used, and, […]
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