by Chris Rohmann | Jul 28, 2011 | Stage
If you visit Double Edge Theatre at its Ashfield farm in the next month, the first thing you’ll notice is a sea of sails. Sprouting from a grassy platform, a fleet of sails billow on 25-foot masts, representing the 10-year voyage related in Homer’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 28, 2011 | Stage
I imagine every married couple and every divorce in the audience takes at least a moment during Dinner with Friends to reflect on their own situation. Donald Margulies’ drama investigates the breakup of a marriage—specifically, the shocks and aftershocks...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 4, 2011 | Stage
By now, nearly all of the 10 productions on Shakespeare & Company’s summer schedule have opened. Most will be running in repertory until Labor Day. I’ve seen half of them so far, including one that has now closed. That was Women of Will, Tina...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 11, 2011 | Stage
“I think there’s something inside us, every one of us, that freezes up when we see anyone different. It’s like a gate that slams down so we can feel safe behind it.” Two world-premiere plays in the Berkshires this week grasp both sides of that...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 18, 2011 | Stage
First there was a small woman, alone on the bare stage, relating a horrifying story of epic proportions that seemed to fill the dark echoing space. Then a couple of guys cramped inside a five-foot Plexiglas cube delivered a zany, rapid-fire evisceration of the art of...
