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Jennifer Childs’s ‘I Will Not Go Gently’ (1st review)
Am I still relevant?
Aging is tough, but it beats the alternative. So goes the old joke. Jennifer Childs’s latest play and Ellensue Gross’s paintings provide fresher responses.
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Aeschylus’s ‘The Eumenides’ at the Penn Museum
A hot time in the old tomb
In The Eumenides, Aeschylus first captured that moment when pre-literate Greeks first turned away from revenge and looked instead to the goddess Athena for wisdom, justice and reason. It’s not a bad recipe for our present age of fear and anger.
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Ayckbourn’s ‘Things We Do For Love’ in Delaware
An absurdist with a grasp of real life
Think Alan Ayckbourn is the English Neil Simon? Think again. He's more like the English Anton Chekhov.
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Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Twelfth Night’
The Bard turned upside down
Seen together in repertory, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night and the tragic Macbeth are greater than the sum of their parts.
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Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ by EgoPo (2nd review)
. . . But roses have thorns
In 1the 1920s the repressed protagonist of Machinal murdered her husband. Today’s women have found healthier outlets for their frustrations.
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Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ by EgoPo (1st review)
Ground down by the urban machine
After nearly 90 years, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal still packs its Expressionist message about the dehumanization of people — especially women — in a mechanized society.
Robert Zallerand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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‘The Father’ and ‘Blackbird’ on Broadway
Overdosing on reality
Some plays are too traumatic to sit through. I found myself in that bind last week, watching The Father and Blackbird— both well written and directed, both powerfully performed, both dealing with agonizing subjects.
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Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Macbeth’
He cracks, she runs down
Carmen Kahn’s rousing yet intimate and nuanced production of Macbeth reminds us that there’s a human story beneath Shakespeare’s famous words.
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Laura Eason’s ‘Sex with Strangers’ by PTC (2nd review)
Sex with Strangers: Dangerous, or boring?
Two people meet cute, but the only thing duller than their sex is their talk in Laura Eason's Sex with Strangers.
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‘Stinky Cheese Man’ at the Arden
Sublime silliness for kids of all ages
The Arden's energetic adaptation of an award-winning book skewers fairy tales and leaves audiences in stitches.
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