Millennial Notes Schnitzler Resists Easy Update by Baela Tinsley Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde” was shocking, even progressive, back in 1900, when it was censored and suppressed for decades. But now, the script only reveals that our ideas about sex have remained almost as puritanical as they were over a hundred years ago. Under Ariel…
Millennial Notes Sarah Treem Celebrates Powerful Ideas by Radical Women by Jordan Freed In “When We Were Young and Unafraid,” a tour de force of talented women, playwright Sarah Treem puts fighting words in the mouths of her radical and not-so-radical women. Four women, often opposed, speak every line with wisdom and pain that…
Shakespeare & Ting Thrust into Present, Spectacularly by Barry David Horwitz Cal Shakes Artistic Director Eric Ting and Dramaturge Philippa Kelly have condensed four Shakespeare plays into one beautiful modern work that leaps off the stage, mingling with the news. Two power-hungry families compete for the English throne. Holy King Henry seems Obama-like—and egomaniac…
Jill Vice’s Solo Noir Reveals Murderous Motivation by Julie Dimas-Lockfeld Jill Vice’s solo performance piece is a tongue-in-cheek riff on the film noir crime drama told from the perspective of her femme fatale persona, Sarah. Vice sets the scene by precisely arranging her body into a classic ‘damsel in distress’ pose, flaunting her curves…