Pay grades, insurmountable credit card debt, recession, excessive consumerism, love. One of these things is not like the other. However, in Dennis Kelly’s efficient and horrific 90-minute play, he examines the danger of having all these themes play together, and the catastrophe that ensues. As a shop-a-holic wife (Julia Siple) fills her emotional voids with stuff [...]
Despite a slow buildup, Steep’s ‘Pornography’ ultimately satisfies
The cast of Steep Theatre’s “Pornography” “It’s a city of strangers. Some come to work some to play. A city of strangers. Some come to stare, some to stay. And every day, some go away.” Those lyrics, from the song “Another Hundred People” by Stephen Sondheim, celebrate the heartbeat of a city — a city of [...]
Steep Theatre’s must-see ‘Festen’ festers with tension as family secrets are revealed and dismissed
“Denial is not just a river in Egypt.” Isn’t that how the joke goes? Well, that river flows free and clear in Festen, Steep Theatre’s must-see production of David Eldridge’s adaptation of the Dogme 95 film and play by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansen. (Now there’s a mouthful.) A family gathers to celebrate the patriarch’s [...]
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