REVIEW: “Dancing with the Czar” at Ventfort Hall
“In a thousand years man will sigh just the same, ‘Ah, how hard life is,’ and yet just as now he will be afraid of…
REVIEW: “Antony and Cleopatra” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 “War is a scienceWith rules to be appliedWhich good soldiers appreciateRecall and recapitulateBefore they go to decimateThe other…
REVIEW: “Rough Crossing” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 “I never knew before how rotten a fellow could be outside his regular business…Every man is a foolishness…
REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2007 For deeply personal reasons, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a very difficult play for me to sit through. But…
REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2006 People who know me will tell you that I am hardly Scrooge-like in my day-to-day life. But when…
REVIEWS: Readings from Poe and Edith Wharton’s “Kerfol” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 2006 This double bill, featuring a reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and a stage adaptation of…
REVIEW: “Duet for One” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Gail M. Burns, July 2006. Duet for One made me very angry. I suspect this is a very personal response because my fellow audience members…
REVIEW: “Morgan O-Yuki: Geisha of the Gilded Age” Presented by Shakespeare & Company at Ventfort Hall
by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Born in Kyoto, Yuki Kato (1881-1963) was the daughter of a Samuri sword-maker, an honorable profession, but one that…