Michael Frayn’s Geniuses Collide over Nuclear Ethics by Patricia L. Morin Director Bruce Coughran demonstrates his mastery of language and movement, as his powerful cast of three encircle the tiny boardwalk stage at Indra’s Net Theater. Coughran summons the ghosts of these real-life, legendary physicists—Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg—to walk the wooden planks in…
Brian Friel Crafts Mystery in Three Conflicting Viewpoints by Patricia L. Morin Irish playwright Brian Friel focuses on a wandering “faith healer,” his wife, and his manager, using a lyrical style that rivets us to their conflicting monologues. They each speak with the conviction that one person’s memory can provide us with the “real…
Rubin & Minchin Unearth New Life in Recurring Day by Patricia L. Morin “Groundhog Day” is the perfect opener for the holiday season. Scrooge-like TV weatherman Phil Connors is caught in a February 2nd time loop, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the day the groundhog sees his shadow—or not. Phil is self-centered, sarcastic, with a sense…
Jane Anderson Touches Parent’s Baffled Suffering by Patricia L. Morin Feisty Isabelle Arc (powerful Sherman Fracher) begins her torture when her impulsive teen-age daughter Joan (riveting Rosie Hallett) claims to have spoken with Saint Catherine. At a testy age, Joan announces that she will fight the invading English army, saying, “I am not afraid…