Girish Karnad Poses Love Choice Between Poetry & Power by Susan Dunn “Hayavadan,” Girish Karnad’s popular 1971 play, fulfills our romantic fantasies. A woman aspires to the perfect man, pursuing her dream of being complete. And a man with a horse’s head yearns to be fully human. Side by side, these two characters want…
Sujit Saraf Spins Complex Epic in Drama, Music, Dance by Susan Dunn It’s like swallowing a whale. That’s what it has meant to the plucky and talented all-volunteer team producing an adaptation of the Mahabharata, the world’s longest epic poem, now on stage at the Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto. The new musical is…
Winkler Throws Privileged Whites to the Birds by Susan Dunn Leah Nanako Winkler is on a mission. She’s tired of the old theater formulas: white folks sitting around the dinner table airing their angst, exploding their family myths, and then closing ranks against any outsiders. In “Two Mile Hollow,” affluent whites are targets of…
Hwang/Tesori Challenge East/West Diplomacy by Susan Dunn The Opening Night audience went wild at The Curran! “Soft Power,” a new play within a musical, on its world premiere tour, with a first rate almost all Asian cast, delivers a hilarious and emotionally compelling show. Tony Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang, replays recent political history…