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...
“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...