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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Review: Right to Be Forgotten debuts at Arena Stage by Hannah Berk

What takes precedent: individual privacy, or public information? Right to Be Forgotten, making its world premiere at Arena Stage, is remarkably nuanced in its exploration of the big debates …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PM

Friday, September 27, 2019

Review: The Finger. U.S. debut of Kosovo play at Venus Theatre by Hannah Berk

How do we navigate our private and shared griefs? How do we buoy others up as we cope, and how do we drag them down? These are central questions in Kosovar playwright Doruntina Basha’s pla…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AM

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Review: Or, from Theatre Prometheus by Hannah Berk

The title, Or, with its provocative comma, suggests the production’s playful attitude toward binaries—in gender, sexuality, and morality. Brought to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop by Theatre…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54PM

Friday, July 19, 2019

Review: American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables by Hannah Berk

American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables emanates an understated sensory clash before any actor sets foot on stage. The play’s world is a simple 1940s living room and bedroom, decked out …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PM

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Fringe review: An Eye for an Eye by Hannah Berk

There’s nothing like a Greek tragedy to go from zero to 100 in just over an hour. In this case, we go from the broodings of a slighted god to a mother wielding her own son’s head on a pi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM

Monday, June 24, 2019

Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Brecht’s warning warning about fascism at Scena Theatre by Hannah Berk

Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (trans. George Tabori) presents us with a familiar story: a churlish Chicago mobster slashes and wheedles his way to the top. This time, i…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42AM

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Review: Antigonick and The Fragments of Sappho from Taffety Punk by Hannah Berk

“how to translate [Antigone]?”, Anne Carson self-reflexes in her translator’s note to the Sophokles classic. “I take inspiration from John Cage who, when asked / how he composed 4’…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AM

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Review: The Dupont Under(world). The passages between life and death await you. by Hannah Berk

Tradition Be Damned (TBD) Immersive, DC’s first large-scale immersive theater company, isn’t interested in designing shows for audiences to watch. They want to create worlds for particip…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PM

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Review: Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn), an act of reclamation for indigenous trans people by Hannah Berk

“Our work is ceremony, because, to us, art is ceremony,” writes Alexa Elizabeth Rodriguez in her Director’s Note. This is the experience of Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn): the audience is …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:02AM

Monday, March 11, 2019

Review: Silent, spectacular performance from Dublin’s Fishamble by Hannah Berk

It’s a rare gift for a play to present a despairing character with both lightness and the sincerity he deserves. Silent and its subject, Tino, are by turns funny, bleak, and feverish, but …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AM

Monday, March 4, 2019

Review: Next Stop: North Korea. John Feffer’s latest looks inside the world’s most secretive society by Hannah Berk

Few foreign lands loom larger in the American imagination than North Korea, despite and because the average outsider knows almost nothing about the country. We’re in the dark by design: th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AM

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