Showing posts with label Williamstown Theatre Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Williamstown Theatre Festival. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Three Hotels (Jon Robin Baitz)

Sharp production of an interesting play concerning the corrosive effects that corporate misdeeds in the third world have on citizens of those nations as well as on the members of the corporate executives' families.

Recommend.

Friday, August 17, 2007

The Physicists, Friedrich Durrenmatt

This is a farcical who-dun-it cum meditation on madness. It questions the moral responsibility of science, asking us to address who imposes moral restriction on knowledge, especially when science is in the service of governmental policies. In the end, the play and its premise devolves into an either/or argument. The paradox of the physicist's position in society at the end reminds us of the inherent insanity of those who break paradigms.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Autumn Garden, Lillian Hellman

This oddly titled work is daring for questioning contemporaneous mores regarding homosexuality and female purity. The virtual rape becomes as devasting in its social consequences as a physical rape.

Recommend.

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