Bryony Lavery's 'Dirt' at Studio Theatre: Genesis of a Lab Series production
British playwright Bryony Lavery begins to explain "Dirt," her world premiere play at Studio Theatre, with a rat story. Several years ago Lavery, best known for the U.K.-U.S. stage hit "Frozen" (a chilling portrait of a child murderer), took her niece to a film in New York City. Naturally, plenty of people bought big bags of popcorn. Just as naturally, Lavery claims, a ripple of screams and frantically lifted feet so…