Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Robert Burns: Not in my Name
Kevin Williamson’s Robert Burns – Not In My Name is a tour de force of poetic reclamation, political critique, and passionate performance. With this bold and incendiary show, Williamson not only reintroduces us to Burns, but demands we reconsider who he was—and what he truly stood for. This is not your schoolroom Burns. There are…
Read MorePreview: The Sacrifice Zones by James O’Brien
A small, intimate venue, a healthy crowd, and an understated, eloquent performance of searing political poetry. O’Brien is not new to stage performance, but is best known as a theatre director, having brought his legendary GIRO Theatre Company to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on several occasions in the 1980s and 1990s. Although the company performed internationally…
Read MoreThe Suppliant Women
There are a few things that immediately set this production of The Suppliant Women apart. One is the libation at the start – a local politician is invited to use a bottle of wine to anoint the thrust-forward, open stage. Real politician. Real wine. The names of those who have contributed financially to the play…
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