GIRLS’ SPORTS
by Emily Kaye Lazzaro
Directed by Jeffrey Mosser
Fresh Ink Theatre
Factory Theatre, Boston, MA
April 5-20, 2013
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Reviewed by Becca Kidwell
(Boston) New drama is a tricky game that needs to be practiced over and over again. Even after all of that practice, the playing field is the only true test of its mettle. Girls’ Sports has gone to court to test itself and it’s come up short. Continue reading
A Dream Play
Presented by Heart & Dagger Productions
By August Strindberg, Translated by Harry G. Carlson
Directed by Melanie Garber
Directing Profile by Becca Kidwell
photo credit: Drew Linehan
Melanie Garber has a dancer’s sensibility of direction with Heart & Dagger Productions’ A Dream Play, but this is not a surprise. She has shown this intricate direction in Actor’s Shakespeare Project’s Medea, Fresh Ink Theatre Company’s Priscilla Dreams The Answer, and Heart & Dagger’s Crave. Not only does Ms. Garber make words come alive, but she also brings life to words. From the initial moments of each of the productions, she chooses specific, distinct movements that create the environment of the play. Continue reading
Expecting the unexpected = sexy and you know it.
Heart & Dagger Productions plunge into their 3rd Season with A DREAM PLAY by August Strindberg. The production opens February 22, 2013 at The Factory Theatre, Boston, MA.
Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. Following the logic of a dream in which characters merge, locations change in an instant and a locked door recurs obsessively-A DREAM PLAY is a potent mix of Freud plus Alice in Wonderland. “The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge.”
Featuring:
Elizabeth Battey, Quentin James, Emily Kaye Lazzaro, Lauren Foster, Eric McGowan, Drew Linehan, Angel Veza, Michael Dix Thomas, Nicole Howard, Katie Drexel, Tony Dangerfield, Jenny Reagan, Erin Brehm, and Ryan Edlinger.
The world premiere of A DREAM PLAY was at The Swedish Theatre in 1907, six years after it was written. August Stringberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, painter, and poet. He is the playwright of The Father, Miss Julie, and The Ghost Sonata. During the 1890s he spent significant time abroad engaged in scientific experiments and studies of the occult. Strindberg died in 1912 at the age of 63. Continue reading
Heart & Dagger Productions plunge into their 3rd Season with A DREAM PLAY by August Strindberg. The production opens February 22, 2013 at The Factory Theatre, Boston, MA.
Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. Following the logic of a dream in which characters merge, locations change in an instant and a locked door recurs obsessively-A DREAM PLAY is a potent mix of Freud plus Alice in Wonderland. “The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge.”
Featuring:
Elizabeth Battey, Quentin James, Emily Kaye Lazzaro, Lauren Foster, Eric McGowan, Drew Linehan, Angel Veza, Michael Dix Thomas, Nicole Howard, Katie Drexel, Tony Dangerfield, Jenny Reagan, Erin Brehm, and Ryan Edlinger. Continue reading
And Neither Have I Wings To Fly by Ann Noble, Bad Habit Productions, Deane Hall at Boston Center for the Arts, 11/4/11-11/20/11, http://www.badhabitproductions.org/index.html.
Reviewed by Craig Idlebrook
(Boston, MA) A cast of actors must take on the nearly-impossible task of becoming a family in the space of mere weeks. They must create the timing and intricacies of a brood that normally would develop over decades. It requires trust, big heart and the ability to listen on stage. It’s when a troupe, full of jitters from opening night, doesn’t quite succeed that you understand just how difficult that task can be. Continue reading
