REVIEW: “The Violet Hour” at Barrington Stage Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 “I can’t find anything hopeless in having lived…in a hundred years I think I shall like having young people speculate on whether my eyes were brown or blue – of course, they are neither.”– Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald in a letter to Scott, 1919…

REVIEW: “The Cherry Orchard” at Bakerloo Theatre Project

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 “Words fail Chekhov’s characters…lacking a Caliban or an Ariel to perform the actions they need, they are left only with resultant chaos because of what they avoid with words.”– Annie DiMario, Bakerloo Dramaturg Last summer while we were on vacation one of my…

REVIEW: “The Tempest” at Bakerloo Theatre Project

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 After forty years of reading and seeing Shakespeare, I had finally decided that “The Tempest” was my favorite of his plays. This decision was cemented in May when I was privileged to see a truly wonderful Tempest â€“a student production at Williams College (yes, it…