by ANNA ROSENSWEIG This review is a special dispatch from Corvallis, Oregon, where Anna caught a play while on vacation: How does one begin a play? It’s possible to start the action in medias res, but then how will the audience know who is who and what they want? P.G. Wodehouse solves this problem by…
by ANNA ROSENSWEIG Sergius Saranoff is the very model of a Major and a gentleman. We learn this in the first scene of George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man when his fiancée, Raina Petkoff, coos over a photograph of him in full officer’s garb and revels in reports of his valor and bravery. Sergius…
by ANNA ROSENSWEIG Watching Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is a lot like watching reality television. Personalities clash and secrets are revealed. Alliances are formed, broken and reconstituted. The more we know about each character, the more we are repulsed. And yet powerful voyeuristic impulses keep us riveted to every sophomoric outburst and salacious revelation. But…
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