Carolyn Michel’s Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.
Peterborough Players
Theater Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — Soulless Fan Fiction
When you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal.
Theater Review: “Dumas’ Camille ” — A Thickly Layered, But Intimate, Evening
Dumas’ Camille is nothing if not ambitious. Such complexity is seldom found on a summer stage.
Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious
This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.
Theater Review: “Morning’s at Seven” — Ensemble Excellence
This production of Morning’s at Seven is a celebration of Peterborough’s theatrical family as much as it is the depiction of a fictional one.,/em>
Theater Review: “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” — A Satisfying Dramatic Fusion
In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.
Theater Review: “Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven” — Conversation as an Act of Healing
Written more than a decade ago, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events.
Theater Review: “Sexy Laundry” — Cycling Through
Sexy Laundry airs the linen of a twenty-five-year marriage from which the colors seem to have faded, and the whites yellowed.
Theater Review: “The Man of Destiny” — A Shavian McGuffin
George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.
Theater Review: “An Inspector Calls” — Sobering Morality Play
An Inspector Calls speaks with ease to our own times, bedeviled with “alternate facts” and ethical doubts.
