Review by Gail M. Burns, November 2004 “EMILY: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live – every, every minute? STAGE MANAGER: No – saints and poets maybe – they do some.”– Thornton Wilder Our Town It is hard to believe that, until November 18, 2004, this curmudgeonly…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2004 I hate to say this, but don’t go and see this production of Proof at the Ghent Playhouse. David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning play is a suspenseful drama broaching questions of genius and madness. No one involved with this production shows the slightest sign of…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November 2004. For the fifth consecutive year students at Chatham High School are participating in Shakespeare & Company’s annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They are one of ten schools in Massachusetts and New York preparing a 90 minute version of a Shakespearean play for…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2004 This was my first trip over the mountains to the Pioneer Valley to see a Valley Light Opera production, which begs the question “Where the heck have you been for the past 25 years??” I have no idea how I could have lived…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 I don’t know about other theatre folks, at least once during the rehearsals for each show I have been involved with, I have had The Dream. In this dream family and friends are streaming into the theatre, wildly excited to see this play…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 “NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR”– Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Huckleberry…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 The first time I ever encountered David Ives’ work I was quite horrified. But that was a big Main Stage production at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, with a big Main Stage price tag. Ives doesn’t write big and he isn’t meant to be…
Review by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 Imagine that you want to create a beautiful mosaic, but the only way you are allowed to work is to accept one piece each from a thousand different people – people who each have their own vision of what the complete work of…
