Posts Tagged ‘relationships’
While ion’s Downtown ‘The Last Five Years’ Fills In
While ion Theatre has a big-cast show playing off-site at the 10th Avenue Theatre, a two-character song cycle is in residence at its home space…
Read Moreion Theatre plunges into ‘This Wide Night’
This Wide Night, Chloë Moss’ two-hander about women attempting to cope with a return to civilian life after serving time in the same British prison, is a subtle character study that eventually evolves into the examination of the dynamics of the women’s relationship. It’s a play that raises more questions than it answers, leaving the actresses to carry its emotional weight…
Read MoreTime Stands Still Sneaks Up on You
“Time stands still” is an oxymoron, something inherently contradictory. Time, of course, is always progressing, though in the eye of the beholder time can seem to stand still under extreme conditions.
How people react to extreme conditions is a major theme of Donald Margulies’ multilayered relationship play, performing through March 17 at North Coast Repertory Theatre. But, “relationship” as a topic for drama turns out to be an oxymoron as well.
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