What does everybody fear most? Why, death, of course. Women may fear childbirth. There is something near-death-like about it. But death? Death happens to everybody. Which is why some may find Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘s play Everybody a bit disquieting. Everybody, now playing at Artists Repertory Theatre, is a play about death. The play opens with the Usher (Sarah Lucht). […]
allegory and myth, Andrea Vernae, Artists Repertory Theatre, Barbie Wu, Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Damaso Rodriguez, drama, dramatic play, Everybody, Everyman, Jessica Wallenfels, Kristeen Willis Crosser, Michael Mendelson, morality play, Phil Johnson, Robert Amico, Sara Hennessy, Sarah Lucht, Tim Stapleton“Is it now?” Guy (Michael O’Connell) asks. He is sprawled, half-dressed, in front of a wheelchair in a room that is empty save for some large boxes at the side of the stage. “I thought I had more time.” Lights out. The next time we see Guy, he is dressed and in the wheelchair, looking […]
death, Everyman, existentialism, Gretchen Corbett, grief, meditation, Michael O'Connell, monologue, Nikki Weaver, philosophy, Portland Playhouse, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Wakey Wakey, Willl Eno