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“The Emporium” at CSC
In my experience, plays that start with a theme the playwright wants to explore rarely work. The impulse to explore a theme is more naturally the province of the essay, and indeed plays that are theme-based tend to feature extended essay-like passages in which the writer toys with ideas rather than deal with choices characters… Continue reading
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“The Merchant of Venice”
The production of The Merchant of Venice that opened recently at CSC was among the most dismaying evenings I’ve had in the theater in recent memory. It’s particularly dismaying because the director, Igor Golyak, recently staged in the same space a play called Our Class from a script by Tadeusz Słobodzianek that I thought, though… Continue reading
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Immmigrants
It’s been a while since I’ve heard anybody use the term “the melting pot.” If I remember my high school history correctly, the idea was that people arriving in this country would bring with them the cultures they had left (or fled). They and/or their children would inevitably meet, socialize with, marry and produce offspring… Continue reading
Jeffrey Sweet--Making the Scene 