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Intiman’s Angels: Required Viewing Without Rapture

StefanDW — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:54:37 +0000

If you’ve never seen Angels in America you need to see Intiman’s current production (at Cornish Playhouse through September 21st). If you’ve only seen the HBO film version, you need to see this production. If you’ve seen the show before you can sit this one out but you likely won’t because you’ll know that Angels … Continue reading →

Love, Boats, Dystopia: Satori Brings a World to Life in Returning to Albert Joseph

StefanDW — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:14:09 +0000

It’s time, once again, to take a little trip to a dystopian world that is distressingly familiar and comfortingly strange. You know the literature: Brave New World, 1984, The Hunger Games, The Giver… Sleeper: places dominated by shadowy leaders whose image engenders fear, obedience, and rebellion. Add to the list Returning to Joseph, Satori Group’s … Continue reading →

Intiman’s Dirty Story Veers From Savage Drama to Sketch Comedy

StefanDW — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:45:26 +0000

Shanley has little novel to say with his allegory—though the comparison with America’s treatment of Native Americans feels smart and the dialogue is full of Wildean wit. There is some amusement in watching Shanley spin the variations and details out. Mostly it’s an opportunity to slowly remember details of the first act and see them newly contextualized in the overt analogue suggested by the second half.

A Stylish Romeo & Juliet, All Grown Up, at Intiman’s Summer Festival

StefanDW — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:11:08 +0000

It is all the more shocking to see Juliet rise out of her childishness and weeping to stand up to this assault but her next soliloquy proves that the change is permanent. As she prepares to fake her death Juliet speaks and finally connects with the audience. The production, which has belonged to Franzen’s Romeo, becomes Juliet’s coming-of-age story.