REVIEW: “Ghosts” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival

by Gail M. Burns Anders Cato’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is breathtaking. By that I mean that it literally takes your breath away. You forget to breathe.  It is that good. And what a cast!  David Adkins (Pastor Manders), Mia Dillon (Helene Alving), Jonathan Epstein (Engstrand), Tara Franklin (Regine…

REVIEW: “The Last High Queen of Ireland” at Old Deerfield Productions

Comments by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Let’s talk about place. As real estate agents say, its all about location, location, location. Where something happens is as important as when or how. Often events are very site specific, in other words they literally couldn’t have happened anywhere else. Location influences…

REVIEW: “What is the Cause of Thunder?” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 On January 5, 2010, “my” soap opera, ABC’s All My Children, will celebrate 40 years on the air. And it is a fairly young soap, Guiding Light debuted on radio in 1937. Two members of the cast will celebrate their 40th anniversary on the show at…

REVIEW: “True West” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Towards the end of Sam Shepard’s True West a mother returns home from an Alaskan cruise to find her two 30-something sons dead drunk and brawling all over her house, an activity in which they have been engaged for some time and so her furniture and…