The portrayal of outrageous harrying of innocent civilians seems less far-fetched than it would have had there been no controversy around the Bush administration’s unwarranted wiretapping. Yes, the play is swathed in absurdity, but the material is woven from the fabric of reality. What allows Rosa to rise above the classification of paranoid, conspiracy-laden hokum is that playwright Snoad doesn’t take himself seriously. Kersey’s Lewis is a satiric cross between hard-boiled Sam Spade and Inspector Clouseau, who gets more excited about alliteration and onomatopoeia than about solving terror plots. Given the timeliness of what he’s up to, that’s a scary notion in itself.
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Via Dolorosa, British playwright David Hare’s eloquently reported account of his 1997 fact-finding mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories, is not up to the minute. But that’s hardly the point.
- Just a gigolo
Two guys on Berkshire stages are trying to parlay sexual prowess into deep pockets this week.
- Tongue untied
Robert Frost, loving his little rhymes, once compared writing free verse to playing tennis without a net. Playwright David Hirson might very well enjoy swinging a racket in shackles, considering the fun he’s had composing La Bête entirely in rhymed couplets.
- Road trip
Maybe it was by unabashedly embracing the bad that The Poorly-Written Play Festival , a one-act by prolific and multiple award-winning local playwright Carolyn Gage, has made it to Off-Off Broadway.
- Plus-size love
For a playwright and filmmaker known for pinpointing every possible human folly, Neil LaBute is candid about his reputation as a master mocksmith of bad behavior.
- Play’s the thing
On the high-tragedy chessboard of Hamlet , the title characters are pawns, but in Tom Stoppard’s spooky, hilarious, and ingenious Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , they are, existentially, the stars.
- Chilly scenes in winter
The drama of the holidays (and I don’t mean A Christmas Carol) may be behind us, but there’s plenty more drama — and comedy and musicals — ahead to light up long winter nights.
- Best on the boards
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
- Best on the boards
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
- Romance gone wrong
An unrequited-love triangle is at the center of Adam Rapp’s riveting and abrasive if not entirely plausible Red Light Winter.
- All in the timing
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