![]() ![]() Two 30-something academic couples ride the razors edge of interpersonal negotiations, as the women do all they can avoid face-to-face contact with the men. Originally Produced by Soho Rep in New York City January 24 2004 SUITCASE, OR THOSE THAT RESEMBLE FLIES FROM A DISTANCE A moving, often funny portrait of the Us vs Them culture we seem to be hiding ourselves within. When he meets a woman who teaches him ASL, a whole new world opens up to him, and he begins to question his family’s choices. Originally Produced at Royal Court Theatre in London, England, October 14, 2010īilly was born deaf into a hearing family but was raised as if he weren’t. With sharp characters, crackling dialogue, and some pointed monologues that get to the heart of Jewish identity, this is my favorite play amongst this group, and I am BEGGING any local theatre to dare to stage it. Add in a granddaughter who may need lifetime of psychiatric care, a grandson who is alienated from everyone, and gird your loins for a family encounter that will draw blood. Daughter Holly wants to start a business but needs Dad’s store to set up shop. Daughter Sharon is Lou’s caregiver and has made Passive-Aggressiveness a way of life. Son Michael has written a book denouncing Jewish obsessions with Israel and the Holocaust and has lost his University position as a result. Patriarch Lou is dying and has long since rented out the family shop to an immigrant family who have turned it into a bodega. Imagine, if you will, August: Osage County with a quintessentially Jewish family. Originally Produced by Roundabout Theatre Co New York City February 22, 2017 I really with I hadn’t missed Theatrical Outfit’s production earlier this year. Told with a non-linear sequence scheme, Vicky and Erica populate a moving tapestry of what it truly means to be a couple, highs and lows, joys and tensions, companionship and solitude. Two women, lovers and partners, must navigate decades of love and tension and the changing political landscape of race and marriage and parenthood and sexuality. ![]() Produced in Atlanta by Theatrical Outfit February 2022 Originally Produced by the Woman’s Project Theatre in New York City 2015 A moving tapestry told in a series of monologues, this play shows us the distressingly huge gap between seeing and perceiving and the equally distressingly miniscule gap between reality and madness. Rice, a “defrocked” physician who just may have the secret for giving Molly sight. Friel, who also gave us Dancing at Lughnasa and Philadelphia, Here I Come, has created here a compelling portrait of three characters – Molly, blind since infancy, Frank, her husband whose fondness for causes is more about self-aggrandizement than charity, and Mr. ![]() That being said, this is an incredibly moving and challenging piece for three actors and groups with a penchant for Irish theatre (Aris?). It’s a good thing said pile has no statute of limitations. I’ve actually had this script in hardcover form (from Fireside Theatre of course) since 1996, but it has languished on my “to read” pile since then. Originally Produced by Roundabout Theatre Co in New York City December 26, 1995 Those who remember the history of the Taj Mahal’s construction and the fates of its thousands of workers can guess the source of the gore. This is a gripping and funny play and includes an incredibly gory middle that will be sure to delight any theatre with an unlimited supply of stage blood and the ability to drain the stage. Two guards, who are forbidden to speak, walk that razor edge that divides wonder and horror, friendship and betrayal, obedience and self. It’s India, and the Taj Mahal is about to be seen for the first time. Originally Produced at The Atlantic Theatre Co in New York City June 11, 2015 So, forthwith are my thoughts on the second seven scripts (once again, it didn’t take me long to read them all): Her The Minotaur was included this time, and, truth be told, I liked all these scripts, and hope this column gives you ideas when planning future seasons. This quarter’s package was curated by playwright Anna Ziegler (whose Photograph 51 was a favorite in the last batch). Well, the second package has arrived, and, of course, was rabidly read by someone with more years than you can imagine and more free time than a sane person would tolerate. From the Bookshelf: Dramatist Play Service’s Broadway Book Club: The Sequelīack on September 1, I offered some thumbnail sketches of seven scripts from the Dramatists Play Service’s New Broadway Book Club. ![]()
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