Word: zawawi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed by Laith Zawawi...
Director Laith Zawawi scraps the traditional Greek chorus and employs in its place the streamlined commentary of the Dark and Light Spirits. Henry as the Light Spirit and a Darth Vaderesque Christina Kiely as her darker counter-part are permanent fixtures to the play. When they don't have any lines they simply stand there spreading their good or bad karma. It's quite a New Age-like concept--one can almost feel all that cosmic energy being thrown about...
Directed by Laith Zawawi...
...millenia before Joan Crawford discovered wire hangers, Euripides wrote the definitive play about a woman done wrong--who then takes it out on her kids. Director Laith Zawawi is giving Medea the "black box" treatment...
THEN there are the liberties Zawawi takes--and doesn't take--with the text. Although Williams intends the play to leave Catherine's sanity in question, he biases the audience's choice. In one scene Cathie complains that she lost yard privileges at the sanitarium because she refuses to eat fried grits. In the original play, that statement does not go unchallenged. "She lost yard privileges because she couldn't be trusted in the yard without constant supervision or even with it because she'd run to the fence and make signs to cars," nurse Sister Felicity says...