Millennial Notes Coleridge’s Popular Poem Embodied by Seaworthy Actors by Carly Van Liere A contemporary environmentalist easily sees the logic of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” A cursed Mariner has killed an Albatross, and must wear its corpse around his neck, forever. The sea wreaks havoc on the ship’s…
Millennial Notes Aaron Posner’s Passionate Characters Bare Their Souls by Carly Van Liere An aging professor crashes at his first wife’s house with his hot young wife. Their arrival shakes things up at the quiet country estate: routines are ruined, old resentments are relit, and all hell breaks loose. As the title suggests, each…
Kate Hamill’s Social Climber Keeps on Falling Down by Carly Van Liere & Barry David Horwitz Adapting William Thackeray’s vast Victorian novel Vanity Fair, playwright Kate Hamill ridicules the self-serving rituals of the snobbish English upper-crust. She portrays the elite in clownish, flamboyant style and farcical staging. Male actors throw on comical Victorian dresses…
Millennial Notes Amy Sass Articulates Our Tick-Tock Time Anxieties by Carly Van Liere An iceless world with a city skyline that reaches the horizon . . . We’ve seen this prediction in every post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, from “Wall-E” to “Oblivion.” Ragged Wing Ensemble’s “Time Sensitive” conjures this dystopian vision with intense choreography and a…