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Sarah Toby Stewart and J.C. Wolfgang Murad have extended Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," into an engrossing 90 minute play. Although their attempts at moving the 1890 piece into 1993 are unsuccessful, they are also unnecessary--it's best to ignore the program and enjoy the show as a gothic social commentary on 19th century repression of women...
Benjamin and the O'Keefes weave the typical convoluted plot around a medieval kingdom ruled King-James Version (Jon Murad). His daughter, Princess Diana Loneliness (Bart St. Clair) comes home from a "fairy" college (Puck U.) to find that her mother, Queen Anne Sober, has mysteriously died...
With his expressive eyebrows and resonant voice, J.C. Wolfgang Murad deftly guides the cast through his chosen plot. As his narrative partner, Emily Gardiner, a graceful, adorable Mute, complements his charismatic stage presence. Silber and McDonell effectively direct these characters to make full use of the performance area...
...elements detract from some of the better performances. Jennifer Sun is excellent as Medea. Her portrayal of the sorceress as a strong, driven and bizarrely triumphant woman is convincing. She succeeds at the difficult feat of making an unrepentant infanticidal mother a compelling and even sympathetic character. J.C. Wolfgang Murad, as Medea's wayward husband Jason, is a little hesitant in the early sections, but reaches a convincingly enraged pitch by the final scenes...
...Croats Croatia, and the Macedonians Macedonia, but the Yugoslav Albanians never had a republic of their own. Instead, they were concentrated in the province of Kosovo in southern Serbia. Worse luck still, that piece of real estate included the site of the famous battlefield where Lazar lost to Murad...