An Untamable Shrew
A wild Taming of the Shrew in Old Mill Park.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Consider the Yeasts
Ray of Light Theatre has managed to do something pretty remarkable with its 2014 season; there are almost no human characters in it at all. I say “almost” only because there was briefly a human narrator (Morgan Freeman, actually) in
Triassic Parq this June, but other than that it was all dinosaurs. And now Ray of Light goes back even further down the evolutionary ladder to a time when the only life on earth was salt-sucking yeasts. Read more
Kids Reenact
In the wake of a child murder and a school massacre, a town’s kids congregate to remember the events the adults want to forget. My review of 99 Stock Productions’ Millicent Scowlworthy is on KQED Arts.
Girl Anachronism
American theater started as a criminal act. The first play performed in English in the colonies was Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe, a satirical stab at the English throne performed in rural Virginia in 1665. As Shakespeare’s contemporaries could attest a generation before, the Puritans were no fans of theater. Performing plays was a crime under their governance, and so was breaking the Sabbath—so this play performed in a tavern on Sunday was doubly forbidden, even disregarding any treasonous content. The show was reprised in a command performance in court, where it was judged harmless.
