Review
I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
Polish writer Marek Hlasko sometimes writes like Hemingway, but without the premium the latter placed on honor and grace.
George Orwell strikes me as a man who was easy to love because he had a tenderness in him that runs like a stream throughout these letters and makes you feel, as you read, how much you would have liked to know him.
A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
The 64,000 question is, if the artists’ concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did “Interference”‘s press releases and the program cite Picasso’s “Guernica”?
As for pulling out themes from Bill T. Jones’ gathering of tales, well, the bedrock of human existence seems to be very much on his mind — life and death, landscape and memory.
This death trip romance is powerful, weird, and intoxicating — until its final scenes.
SHUFFLE Concert has invented their own distinctive rules to performance, and their innovative approach, with its inspired programming, has been a hit.
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