Igor Golyak
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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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“Our Class” and “Fatherland”
Compare and contrast. Does anybody use that phrase any more in high school English? I remember the groan that would arise when one of our teachers assigned a paper and began with that phrase. Compare and contrast The Great Gatsby with To Kill a Mockingbird, or whatever two titles could be randomly paired together. And Continue reading
Jeffrey Sweet--Making the Scene 