Millennial Notes Sarah Ruhl Delights, Shocks with Dirty Laundry by Evelyn Arevalo “The Clean house” embodies quintessential elements of a hilarious comedy: A long winded joke in a mysterious foreign language, a depressed maid whose depression stems from her dislike of cleaning, and an up-tight sister versus her generous sister. Sarah Ruhl’s play adds…
Millennial Notes Carol S. Lashof Gives Life to Historical Tituba by Fritz Mad’Laine Those Women Productions, one of my favorites, is back at it again with their world premiere of Carol S. Lashof’s “Witch Hunt.” With reproductive justice rights under attack, Mother Earth in ruins, and the occult making a dramatic comeback among disillusioned…
Millennial Notes Carol Lashof Gives Voices to Salem’s Silenced Victims by Jordan Freed Descending the narrow staircase into La Val’s Subterranean Theater feels right for the eerie mood of “Witch Hunt.” The basement space perfectly recreates the claustrophobia of panicked, paranoid colonial Salem, Massachusetts. A dark, misty forest and townscape spread across the walls, compelling…
Millennial Notes Leguizamo & Taccone Transform Latin Colonial History by Tyler Jeffreys Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. —George Orwell (1984) “Kiss my Aztec!” conjures up an ancient indigenous identity that lurks in all our DNA. As the cast sings at the end: “The World…