Millennial Notes Flores & Keyes Investigate Nuances of Gender by Fritz Mad’Laine The Redwood City Play Festival, premiering this year with its theme “Gender Shorts,” explores sexism and power through the work of local artists. I was able to catch the first and last of three plays: “Because I Went There,” “Never Swim Alone,”…
Millennial Notes Yorkey & Kitt Master the Manic Depressive Musical by Fritz Mad’Laine Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s smash hit “Next to Normal” shatters expectations for a standard romantic musical, uprooting the stigma of mental illness with tenderness and pizzazz. The show depicts Diana (charming Jillian Toby-Cummings), a mother battling bipolar disorder as she…
Millennial Notes Davis & Clark Reanimate a Baroque Beheading by Fritz Mad’Laine Lights come up on a woman in underwear and heels, her body covered in Saran Wrap as she drags her co-star onto the stage in a plastic bag. Their packaged limbs are reminiscent of true crime shows—or meat on the shelf at…
Millennial Notes Selina Fillinger Disrupts ISIS Narrative by Fritz Mad’Laine When I heard the “war on terror” was coming to my hometown of Santa Rosa, I knew I couldn’t miss it. Sixth Street Playhouse was packed for Selina Fillinger’s powerful new play “Faceless,” which reveals the shocking number of teenage girls who have left…