We are the secretaries and we do things secretarial And once a month we kill a guy and cut him up for burial It’s a slasher play. It’s a comedy. No, it’s a black and bloody satire. It’s over the top. And it’s dangerous–particularly if one is a lumberjack in Big Bone, Oregon. It’s […]
Andrea White, Babs Davy, Claire Rigsby, dark comedy, Dawn Monique Williams, Dominique Dibbell, drama, homopobia, homosexuality, Jamie M. Rea, Jen Rowe, Kelly Godell, Lisa Kron, lumberjacks, Maureen Angelos, Meg Wilkerson, misogyny, Peg Healey, Profile Theatre, satire, The Five Lesbian Brothers, The Secretaries, Wanda WaldenWhen I saw Stephen Adly Guirgis‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, it put me in a New York state of mind. Now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, the play does not depict the New York of the Billy Joel song. There is nothing romantic about Walter “Pops” Washington (Kevin Jones) and the characters who […]
Adriana Baer, Alison Heryer, Artists Repertory Theatre, Ayanna Berkshire, Ben Newman, Between Riverside and Crazy, Bobby Bermea, dark comedy, Illya Torres-Garner, institutionalized racism, Julana Torres, Kevin Jones, Kristeen Willis Crosser, New York City drama, Pulitzer Prize winner, race issues, rent control, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Val Landrum