Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 In 2006, when this production of Hamlet, directed by Eleanor Holdridge and starring Jason Asprey with his real-life mother Tina Packer as Gertrude and his real-life step-father Dennis Krausnick as Polonius, was first presented at Shakespeare & Company, I was the only Berkshire area…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Every year I concoct a marathon Saturday of theatre in Lenox. This enables me to see the two halves of Shakespeare & Company’s free offering on the tented Rose Footprint stage, the one-woman show across the street at Ventfort Hall, and something else…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “Three thousand years ago Joshua ‘fit the battle of Jericho,’ and ever since Jews, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims have been killing each other over the limited real estate. Different bloodstreams with different memories, and I see little reason to think…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “Pinter pause Pinter pause Pinter pause” – Eric Tucker in his poem/director’s note for Pinter’s Mirror Can you believe I actually tried to prepare for this review? What WAS I thinking? Preparing for Pinter. There’s a title for an absurdist play if I ever…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “We believe that the creative impulse is essential to the human soul, and that the Arts are the most realized expression of this impulse.” – Shakespeare & Company Mission Statement I am here to tell you that you would be foolish not to…
