Will Eno Probes One Man’s Thoughts & Feelings by Patricia L. Morin Will Eno’s “Thom Pain (based on nothing),” live-streamed from the Bus Barn Theater by Los Altos Stage Company, attempts to piece together an obscure jigsaw puzzle of human thoughts and feelings through the events of one agonized man’s life. As Thom Pain,…
Drew Larimore Masterfully Exposes Perils of Social Media by Patricia L. Morin Like a falling line of dominoes, the four dynamic monologues of “Smithtown” unfold events that destroy a young girl’s life. The tightly written emotional scenes from The Studios of Key West highlight media-savvy citizens who fall prey to their own self-interest. Playwright…
Nicole Parizeau Paints a Portrait of Business vs. Art by Patricia L. Morin “The Human Ounce,” an audio play, begins by asking: How can we value a masterpiece—in any art form—when we learn the artist is a Nazi, pedophile, racist, or immoral? Two friends, the museum curator Biz (dynamic Kimberly Ridgeway) and museum educator…
Philip Franks Unites Ghostly Treasure Tales & Plague by Patricia L. Morin In a dark cemetery, in the plague year 2020, we join two frightened YouTubing millennials: venturous Matt (Max Bowden) and his girlfriend, skittish Caitlin (Alexandra Guelff). They are videotaping rows of crosses from the Spanish Flu in 1918, to compare to Covid19….