Naomi Wallace Laughs through Apocalypse, Then and Now by Tom Glynn In the 17th Century, humankind found a way to capture, bottle, and sell goat and human flatulence to ward off the plague. In the 21st Century, when word of the pandemic broke out, the first impulse was to hoard toilet paper. Make of…
Millennial Notes Celine Song Animates Ancient Korea & Modern Manhattan by Evelyn Arevalo “Endlings” seduces us with alluring images, but its short run time of 70 minutes leaves us wanting more. Playwright Celine Song juxtaposes the harsh lives of haenyeos or “sea women” on the remote Korean island of Jeju with an alienated writer’s…
Karen Zacarías Fights Border Walls with Sitcom Laughs by Tom Glynn “Native Gardens” offers a 90 minute romp through the culture war battlefield, featuring some of the best local actors and reminding us that interracial sitcoms are a tradition on American TV. If you liked the confrontations in “All in the Family” and “The…
María Irene Fornés‘ Absurd Comedy Probes Women’s Fears by Patricia L. Morin “Fefu and Her Friends” delicately weaves individual women’s stories into themes to spotlight women’s struggles for gender independence, life, and renewal. All loaded into a 1977, rich, comic absurdist play. Fefu (magnificent Catherine Castellanos) welcomes us to her lavish, 1935 home, where…