REVIEW: “Blue/Orange” at Shakespeare & Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 In my recent review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Berkshire Theatre Festival I stated that, while there had been many pharmaceutical advances in treating the mentally ill since that play was written in 1963, life on a psych ward is pretty…

REVIEW: “Scapin” at Shakespeare & Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 “This is our adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation, related to our own community and circumstances with respect for classic form.”– Jonathan Croy, Director, Scapin I will entitle this review: “Scapin, or A Whole Lot of Fun for Free.” Shakespeare & Company has…

REVIEW: “Johnny Guitar” at the Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The wild, wild west – where men are men and women are men and outlaws dance (badly). Where the Town Tramp wears white while the “good girl” wears black (well, okay, her brother was just killed. Them’s just widder’s weeds.) Where plaintive guitar…

REVIEW: “Boy Gets Girl” at the Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 There is a reason why this serious look at the dynamics of the delicate and tenuous relationships between human males and females has such a cutesy and frivolous title as Boy Gets Girl, but on a brief scan of the Theater Barn’s 2007 schedule…

REVIEW: “Blithe Spirit” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 “The stately homes of England tho’ rather in the lurch,Provide a lot of chances for psychical researchThere’s a ghost of a crazy younger son,Who murder’d in thirteen fifty one,An extremely rowdy nun (who resented it),And people who come to callMeet her in the…