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Caryl Churchill’s ‘Love and Information’ in NY
A case of emotional hit-and-run
Are Caryl Churchill and her inventive artistic team messing with our minds? You bet.
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5 minute read
'Circle Mirror Transformation' at Theatre Horizon (2nd review)
The power of self-expression
What’s going on in the acting class on stage is the highest form of acting — naturalistic, believable, and true.
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3 minute read
EgoPo does Ibsen’s ‘Lady From the Sea’
A woman in need of assertiveness training
In the rarely performed Lady From the Sea, the heroine is more poetic but also more perplexing than most of Ibsen’s women.
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3 minute read
‘Pride and Prejudice’ at People’s Light
The delicate dance of courtship
Dance plays a large part in the dramatization of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice currently playing at People’s Light & Theatre Company.
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2 minute read
'Circle Mirror Transformation' at Theatre Horizon
Getting to know you
Circle Mirror Transformation is an unusual play that demands close attention, as an instructor in a community-center adult acting class leads her students in intricate theater games.
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2 minute read
Further thoughts on immersive theater
Audience participation? Let’s call it something else.
Carol Rocamora might have come across as a curmudgeon who rejects all immersive theater. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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4 minute read
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'Beautiful Boy' at the Walnut
A male Alice in a Catholic Wonderland
Under the skillful direction of David Stradley, Eric Conger’s riveting tragicomedy about a young man’s search for his birth mother becomes a memorable experience.
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4 minute read
Nina Raine’s ‘Tribes’ by PTC (3rd review)
Struggling to be heard
An increasing number of plays portray the problems of minority groups. Tribes, about the hearing-impaired, achieves a rare universality. On the surface, it’s about deafness; at a deeper level, it’s about anyone who’s ever struggled to be heard.
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3 minute read
Nina Raine’s ‘Tribes’ by PTC (2nd review)
Empathy for the deaf
With one exception, everyone involved with Nina Raine’s Tribes knows about deafness, but they don’t know deafness. That’s the big stumbling block for any work on this subject aimed at a hearing audience.
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4 minute read
An immersive experience or audience abuse?
Is there such a thing as audience abuse? More and more these days, you run that risk when you go to the theater. The question is: Is it worth it? And why do we tolerate it?
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6 minute read