Express Yourself: “Circle Mirror Transformation” at the Harbor Stage Company
The setting is a local community center, familiar to those of us who’ve spent time in small New England towns. A chair or two against the walls, lots of room for various activities in the center; you can almost smell the cleaning fluid. There are five...
Brokenness Personified: Death of a Salesman at the Harbor Stage Company
When we left the theater after seeing Death of a Salesman, I turned to my companion and asked, “what did you think?” He thought for a moment and then said, “It’s not for the faint of heart, but that’s the way epic tales of woe often are.” I...
“Dinner and threshing”: The Bohemian at the Harbor Stage Company
Willa Cather is said to have written to a friend, in apparent surprise, “I have actually sold The Bohemian Girl. Isn’t that a jolt?” Yet many scholars see the story as the piece that honed her skills, the voice that would later develop My Antonia. What...
Bite Me: “Westminster” Makes its Regional Début at the Harbor Stage Company
Some of the most interesting plays I’ve seen feature a character who never is present physically onstage but is intimated, felt, almost-perceived. That character often silently lends an air of foreboding to an otherwise ordinary situation. That’s...
An Affair to Remember: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal in Wellfleet
One of the most powerful aspects of Harold Pinter’s work is in the spaces he creates between the lines spoken by his characters. It’s in the silences, in the pauses, that the more visceral story is being told, and in no other work is this more apparent...
Hungry for Humor? Try Bread and Butter at the Harbor Stage Company!
It’s a truism that there’s no business like show business—and it’s a Cape Cod truism that the Harbor Stage Company puts on some of the best shows around. That’s certainly the case with the current offering, loosely adapted from George S. Kaufman’s...
When You Can’t Look Away: Frozen at the Harbor Stage
One has to start with a trigger warning: Bryony Lavery’s play Frozen could be quite difficult for some people to watch, dealing as it does—intimately—with pedophilia and serial murder. None of that is immediately obvious to the audience; as the play...
The Ballad of Bobby Botswain is brilliant
Two men meet in a bar. It’s the opening to many a story that at least one of the participants is going to later regret. That’s fortunately not the case in The Ballad of Bobby Botswain, the Harbor Stage Company’s current world première and the sort of...
Buried Child at Harbor Stage is Buried Treasure
It’s telling that as the audience files in to see Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer-prizewinning play, Buried Child, at the Harbor Stage Company, they must put on masks and have their vaccination credentials examined: our time is not so very different from the world...
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