Anyone can see the effect of oppression upon the oppressed, but what effect does it have on the oppressor? The gift that Athol Fugard gives us in “MASTER HAROLD”…and the boys, now receiving a superb production at Quotidian Theatre, is that he shows us the answer straight on, and with undeniable force.
The Seafarer
The Seafarer makes an interesting addition to the traditional holiday fare that theatres are offering. Quotidian Theatre Company’s latest production is a story of sin and redemption set in an Irish home on Christmas Eve. Despite a slow start, the play eventually evolves into a compelling story of salvation.
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is a tough play to produce, and for that reason most theaters leave it alone. Williams wrote it in 1979, four years before his death, and like many of his later pieces, it studies character across a limited event horizon. Notwithstanding the work’s challenges, Quotidian Theatre Company delivers an […]
The Trip to Bountiful
Graceful, elegant, and haunting, The Trip to Bountiful is lovingly given its due by Quotidian Theatre, led by the magnificent Jane Squier Bruns as Carrie Watts.
Port Authority
The justly celebrated Conor McPherson, whose The Weir and Dublin Carol do honor to an Irish storytelling tradition stretching back to Swift, Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, and Wilde, has written an honest, gripping piece
Captain Drew on Leave
When done well, Edwardian parlor comedies have a way of drawing you into a world of witty repartee and verbal gyrations, even innocent subterfuge wrapped in social grace, honor and respect – characteristics generally lacking in today’s frontal and verbal assaulting society.
Monday Evening 1942
Bad news should be given straight up, and immediately, and so I shall. Steve LaRocque, a fine actor, competent director and very decent guy, has here written a Sominex™ tablet of a play, so dull and tedious that he has managed to turn Monday evening, for the audience, into a week of Mondays.
In Memory of Horton Foote
Playwright Horton Foote passed away on March 4th in Hartford, Connecticut. That night, the lights on Broadway were dimmed in honor of the prolific writer, who Ben Brantley in his essay in the NY Times described as “the playwright who cozied up to the chill in the hearth.”
Dublin Carol
Dublin Carol By Conor McPherson Directed by Jack Sbarbori Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company Reviewed by Steven McKnight Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol consists of three scenes set in the office of assistant funeral director John Plunkett (John Decker) in Dublin on Christmas Eve. The office is a nice creation by set designer Jack Sbarbori, just […]
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Long Day’s Journey into Night By Eugene O’Neill Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company Directed by Bob Bartlett Reviewed by Tim Treanor Long Day’s Journey into Night is old-school theater at its best: passionate, honest, intense, complex, and demanding. Quotidian’s no-frills production does full justice to the text, and gives the willing viewer an engrossing and […]
The Mollusc
The Mollusc By Hubert Henry Davies Directed by Jack Sbarbori Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company Reviewed by Steven McKnight In a season where area theatergoers have been treated to serious works by great playwrights like August Wilson and Arthur Miller, an Edwardian drawing room comedy can be a timely treat. Under any circumstances, however, it is […]
The Carpetbaggers Children
The Carpetbagger’s Children By Horton Foote Directed by Jack Sbarboni Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson ‘Carpetbagger’ – we’ve all heard the term, learned about it in grade school history lessons of the Civil War. It doesn’t have a particularly kind connotation, and in the current quiet production at the Writer’s Center, it […]