by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 I cannot tell you how many times I have repeated the title of this show to people. “What is it called?” they would ask me. And no matter how carefully I enunciated the answer, the next question out of many people’s mouths was “Who’s…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2007 For deeply personal reasons, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a very difficult play for me to sit through. But in this line of work it is also one that I have to sit through frequently. There have been times when this play has made…
by Gail M. Burns If you have studied dramatic literature, you know that Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu roi” holds a seminal place in the inexorable transition from 19th to 20th century theatre. If you haven’t studied dramatic literature, you have probably never heard of it. And I would guess that the…
