REVIEW: The Camera Does the Work in BAM’s Medea
With predictably Eurotrashy design elements, playwright/director Simon Stone reduces Euripides to soap opera.
With predictably Eurotrashy design elements, playwright/director Simon Stone reduces Euripides to soap opera.
Days later, I’m playing over scenes in my mind—loving some, scratching my head over others.
Cameron and David consider Lucy Kirkwood’s taut drama that considers how society reacts to a fallout of its own making.
Politics and culture here are ultimately filler, suggesting but not delivering dramatic weight.
Judith Ivey offers a performance of raw, unflinching honesty across the story’s increasingly bleak three hours.
Don’t miss this superb show, which returns for a run this December!
The great Amanda Schoonover makes the ordinary extraordinary.
It’s not difficult to make an audience weep. But artists have a responsibility to not overuse that power.
Seen here, this dated piece of earnest but intolerant realism seems almost a parody of itself.
After seven decades in show business, the legendary actress and comedienne still knows her way around a joke.