For all the imposing bang of Thomas Stearns Eliot's blasts of modern poetry (The Wasteland, Four Quartets), his "drawing-room" plays, while also flush with important, complex ideas, tend to the whimper. This is true of Eliot's last, the rarely performed The Elder Statesman, an autumnal rumination on one's life lived, currently at Washington Stage Guild. [...]The post The Elder Statesman appeared first on DC Theatre S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AM on April 30, 2013