Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Roger Rees’ production of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” will make people fall in love with the theatre. That is a very very dangerous thing to do – parents are sobbing into their swiss-processed decaffeinated coffee this morning, rueing the day they…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Ever sit in the theatre and wonder what that maid who answers the door, the character with three lines and a curtesy, does after she exits? We can imagine what the actress who plays her does, but what does that character do? That…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 There seemed to be a great deal of excitment about “The Factory Girls” the season opener at the WTF’s Nikos Stage. I couldn’t figure out why. This wasn’t a play I had heard a great deal about, and the WTF wasn’t tooting its…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 I suppose, if the WTF is to continue its tradition as a leading interpreter of Tennessee Williams, that eventually they would have to do “Camino Real”. In fact this is not the first time they have dragged Williams’ incoherent 1953 flop on to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 There are two things you need to know at the outset. First, this is Greek tragedy we are discussing here. Hecuba is two hours of angst, grief, death, revenge, self-pity, misery, and helplessness. Second, the title character is referred to by her Greek…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 Coming home from the theatre late last night, after a long and exhausting day, the question entered my mind “Why do we bother writing new plays when there are so many good old ones?” That is a foolish question, of course. The real…
