Word: plays
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...lone scenic element in the Boston Center for American Performance’s minimalist production of Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive”—yet, any further set would have been needless in this superbly acted, provocative memory play, which runs through...
...chorus that morphs into various ensemble roles, Danya Cousins stands out, especially as Li’l Bit’s mother and Aunt Mary. Her increasingly drunken instructions for ladylike alcohol consumption are charming and comical, yet Cousins also delivers one of the most moving monologues of the play as Peck’s distressed wife Mary, counting the days until Li’l Bit leaves home...
Thus begins Tennessee Williams’ famed four-character play, “The Glass Menagerie,” a touching tale about the struggle to support a fragile family, the disappointments that one encounters in this endeavor, and the difficult decisions one must face when trying to keep these loved ones secure...
...It’s a beautiful, bittersweet story. In its simplicity, it’s more touching—a play about the dynamics between a somewhat overbearing but loving mother and her son and daughter, and their interaction with the appearance of the much-awaited gentleman caller,” director Megan E. O’Keefe ’11 says. “Their problems, when reduced, are just about meeting expectations and failing those expectations. And that is similar...
...organizer Jim Henle said that, while it is unusual for typically solitary poets to make public appearances, it should happen more often. “I think it’s a good thing for the poetry community to think of itself as having a public face. We can play a role in helping people, in galvanizing sentiment, even action, around the world,” he said...