by Chris Rohmann | Mar 21, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
The story goes that Samuel Beckett was walking through a London park with a friend on a glorious spring morning when his companion exclaimed, “Isn’t this just the kind of day that makes you glad to be alive?” To which Beckett replied, “Oh, I don’t think I’d go that...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 3, 2016 | Stagestruck
These days it’s almost impossible to do Shakespeare in Elizabethan costumes. Every new production on a professional stage seems obliged to locate the play in some historical or metaphorical setting which – it is hoped – casts a new and relevant light on the...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 29, 2016 | Stagestruck
The irony of Anton Chekhov referring to his plays as “comedies” is often remarked. Most of his characters are bored to death and/or deeply unhappy, frustrated by love or circumstance or both, and his plays generally end with a bleak sense of hopelessness. But Linda...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 18, 2016 | Stagestruck
Caryl Churchill’s plays have always toyed with the form and tested its limits. Her two most celebrated early works, Cloud Nine and Top Girls, folded historical fantasias into modern explorations of gender, sexuality and power. More recently, A Number imagined a...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 11, 2016 | Stagestruck
Two classics come to the Amherst Cinema this month via the National Theatre’s NT Live series. One is a courtly game of wicked wagers and voluptuous pleasures, the other a comically romantic repudiation of courtly artifice. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, playing this...
