Piety in Your Face
Those familiar with Tartuffe or Molière’s work in general might be shocked by how grim this particular production is.
Read my review on KQED Arts. Read more
He’s Crafty
There’s nothing like a devilish prankster to liven up your summer. Just a couple years after ACT brought Bill Irwin’s version of Molière’s Scapin, Porchlight brings you another modernized version, Scapino! My review‘s in the Marin Independent Journal.
That Scamp Scapin
If there’s one thing that drives me up the wall, it’s slapstick. I’m not talking about physical comedy onstage or onscreen—that stuff’s great, at least when done well. What I can’t stand is when slapstick happens in real life, when inanimate objects can’t commit to being inanimate and start falling and flying all over the place. When the world seems to be working at cross-purposes with you—or what Sartre called the “coefficient of adversity”—that’s when things get frustrating.
