By Richard Pacheco “Shirley Valentine” is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. Russell turned the acclaimed play into a film staring the actress who did the show on stage…
Category: Plays
“A Night of Durang” (Arctic Playhouse)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The opening show of the Arctic Playhouse’s new season is “Sister Mary Ignatius/The Actor’s Nightmare” by Christopher Durang. They are two one act companion piece plays. Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is more concerned with sin in all its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges….
MARVIN’S ROOM (Rhode Island College)
MARVIN’S ROOM Reviewed by Tony Annicone Rhode Island College Theatre’s current show is “Marvin’s Room” by Scott McPherson. It won the Outer Critic’s Award, the Drama Desk Award and the John Gassner Award for Best New American Play in 1992. The show is about two sisters, Lee, a wisecracking, psychologically unstable free spirit who has…
Apollinaire Blinds Us With Science with Provocative ‘Informed Consent’
by Mike Hoban Informed Consent – Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer; Directed by Dale J. Young; Set Design by Jessica Pizzut; Sound Design by Camilo Atehortua; Costume Design by Elizabeth Rocha; Lighting Design by Danielle Fauteux Jacques. Presented by the Apollinaire Theatre Company at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea through March 12. Informed Consent, the unsettling…
