The LAVA Center Reprises Online Short Play Festival “Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater”

GREENFIELD, MA — The LAVA Center is proud to reprise our second online short play festival, “Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater.” In plays penned by 13 playwrights from 3 continents, characters from cerulean warblers, insects, brown bull catfish, and fire to a wide age range of humans plus a…

REVIEW: “Bushwa: A Modern Ubu” at Confetti Stage

by Gail M. Burns If you have studied dramatic literature, you know that Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu roi” holds a seminal place in the inexorable transition from 19th to 20th century theatre.  If you haven’t studied dramatic literature, you have probably never heard of it.  And I would guess that the…

REVIEW: “Bushwa: A Modern Ubu” at Confetti Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 If you have studied dramatic literature, you know that Alfred Jarry’s Ubu roi holds a seminal place in the inexorable transition from 19th to 20th century theatre. If you haven’t studied dramatic literature, you have probably never heard of it. And I would guess that…