Berkshire on Stage

by Macey Levin Penelope  by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eve Steinmetz is the enthralling production currently at the Ancram Center for the Arts in Ancram, New York.  It is based on Homer’s “The Odyssey,” the ancient Greek classic about Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who fought in the Trojan War…

by Barbara Waldinger A middle-aged Englishwoman, identified only as Homebody, tries in vain to remember the name of her anti-depressant:  “a portmanteau chemical cocktail word confected by punning psychopharmacologists.”  She imagines her “brain floating in a salt bath, frosted with a rime of salt, a pickle-brine brain, pink-beige walnut-wrinkled nutmeat…