Besides depicting the upper crust, the lives of the servants are harshly detailed with inspiration from social documentarian Jacob Riis' muckraking journalism. There are searing descriptions of the bleak existence in the Lower East Side tenements that include death from cholera. Ms. Farrington ingeniously grafts the characteristics of Wharton and Riis with her own imaginative powers in her finely written and bold…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:36AM on April 2, 2018