Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 This has been a summer for farce. It started on Memorial Day weekend with The Ladies Man at Shakespeare & Company, and was punctuated with A Flea in Her Ear at the Williamstown Theatre Festival at the end of July. It is now concluding with the farce…
Comments by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 “Time, like an ever rolling stream,bears all who breathe away;*they fly forgotten, as a dreamdies at the opening day.” – Isaac Watts I have always loved that verse of the old hymn O God, Our Help in Ages Past. The analogy of time with…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 When I was ten, my parents enrolled me in a summer course in theater games and improvisation. My class worked for weeks on a little skit about a family of four going on a car trip, and I played the mother. On the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 This is the second time this year that a playwright has had me right up until the last minutes of a play and then – whump! – dud ending. Do I write that this production offers an hour and forty-four minutes of entertaining…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 “Visiting Mr. Green” is gentle little show by Jeff Baron that had its genesis at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in 1996. This is its second local outing since then – the Town Players produced it early in 2007 and now the Theater Barn is mounting it as one of their…
