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Companion-in-arms to Indian fighters, writer-memoirist, painter laureate of the Old West, Frederic Remington is the subject of this one-man show. Playwright Aranha's personality portrait breathes with a sense of the untamed times of Remington's youth...
...refreshing to encounter a dramatist who can people a stage rather than depopulate it. Playwright Shank's specific insight into the modern temper is that most people nowadays are talking to themselves under the guise of talking to others. Fortunately, the Actors Theater of Louisville is conversing on a national network...
...difference must be stressed. Playwright Pielmeier has performed the difficult feat of creating a credible innocent, a plausible saint. Agnes cannot hear the voices of the world because her heart is trust to God. In one telling interchange, Pielmeier captures the inner guilt and grief of those who, reared as Christians, yearn to believe again. Agnes has told of speaking with...
Progress is painful for play and playwright...
...formidable mechanisms of power. Power, like all things human, is fragile. One glimpse of the ruins of all the great European civilizations ought to have taught Shaw that. Revivals, too, may prove fragile. This one shows tensile strength. Director Stephen Porter always holds up a steady mirror to a playwright's inner vision, never more precisely than in Major Barbara. His cast is superb-Bosco's polished diabolism as Undershaft, Kennedy's valiantly wounded purity as Barbara, Jon De Vries' scruffily belligerent ruffianism as one of the undeserving poor...