The American Struggle
✮✮✮ Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Berliner Ensemble | Berlin directed by Michael Thalheimer When working on classic plays, Michael Thalheimer has a reputation for steadfastly cutting and condensing text, yet he never alters or adds to what he’s been given. We see the effectiveness of this method in this canny production of A Streetcar Named Desire. With a play that is so of its time, one would expect to hear references or turns of phrase that jar, but this is p
Bitter Humour & Bitter Truth
✮✮✮✮ Tracy Letts' August: Osage county Berliner Ensemble | Berlin directed by Oliver Reese Drugs, alcohol, and deceit. These are the Weston Family’s tools of choice to numb against the many painful truths that surround them. The sudden disappearance of the family patriarch, Beverly Weston, forces an unavoidable gathering and the cross-generational conflict that ensues. The scattered family can hardly come together before jealousy, greed, dishonesty and simple pigheadedness b
