The “Shropshire Lad” series about the shine and early death of youth comes of this period of hopeless and serious love, and watching them old and young you believe it. Though , as one contemporary casually observes , that he “never read such a man for telling you you’re better off ...
I have bequeathed both my eyeballs to a redhead named Tabitha. Don’t blame me: it’s the fault of The Swell Mob, ninety minutes of supernatural skullduggery above and below ground in the COLAB factory, Borough. Such is the pull of this immersive piece, set in an 1840s hellmouth with ...
Sue Wilson
In Ghosts the widow of a sexually wicked man finds her son infected with the syphilis his father left him. But Osvald is an innocent, doomed to madness and death, so there is additional shock in being asked to accept that Akshay too is a victim, inheriting his father’s violence. In ...
and from it the woman’s blood-covered and ravaged face floated up, glaring into the void. A momentary cry of terror went up from among the people watching below. Yet no one left: everyone held their breath, and looked. (The space that separated the audience from the stage was narrower...
grave. Graveyard flowers are also given on closing night to represent the death of the show and the transient nature of theatre. (These days, it’s generally frowned upon to steal flowers from your local graveyard. Stick to aging your own bouquet by buying them a few days ahead of time....
Poetry. Death. A young South Asian-American Woman explores her relationship with all four. Is she tossed, grilled, pan-fried or frozen? Glynn, Gavin My Name is Diana (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 1999) Wicked (Hudson Mainstage Theatre, 2001) Golamco, Michael Golamco is of Chinese and Fill...
and we meet her family on the eve of the year 1900, 18 years after her death. The Stanhopes are moving house, but Alison’s presence is strong and a mystery around her posthumous success emerges. Although a Pulitzer Prize winner, the play feels every bit her 88 years of age. Central ...
Yet, as the sisters gather, weeks after the death of their mother, their shattered camaraderie is ever present and apparent. They are there to dive into the yearly family tradition of quilting, but that’s not all swirling in the undercurrent. The tension and fragility of their union are fo...
Although weak from loss of blood, Norton continued to lead his platoon calmly and resolutely up the valley, where they succeeded in taking the remaining enemy positions, and by the evening the Hampshires had taken Monte Gridolfo. The citation for his VC says a lot about the man when it ...