Millennial Notes Lynne Kaufman & Lorri Holt Deliver a Poetic Eulogy by Jordan Freed At The Marsh, Sylvia Plath has a chance to speak again, posing challenging questions. What we gain is an engrossing meditation on suicide and depression, through the sardonic lens of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Toward…
Millennial Notes Jordan Tannahill’s Intimate, Piercing Play Burrows Deep by Svea Vikander Sometimes, I lie in bed awake at night and imagine what might happen if one of my children were to die. It’s a fantasy that’s both terrifying and comforting—as if thinking of the worst could ward it off. Who would be there…
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Make Music for Harsh Times by Rachel Norby and Barry David Horwitz The plot of “Dear Evan Hansen” could be a teenie bopper movie: boy makes up story, the lies spin out of control, he comes clean. But this multiple Tony Award winning musical phenomenon has a Dickensian theme:…
Millennial Notes Ashlin Halfnight Questions Unconditional Love by Evelyn Arevalo “Even though I’m no more than a monster–don’t I, too, have the right to live?” –Oldboy “The Resting Place” hit me in my gut. A family is brought together by tragedy, in the aftermath of a sudden suicide. We are thrust into the lives…