Review: Oakland Theater Project’s innovative ‘The Waste Land’ brings back in-person theater
The adaptation of T. S. Eliot's poem doesn't always live up to the Herculean effort to put on the show
Lily Janiak April 12, 2021Updated: April 13, 2021, 9:39 am
Lisa Ramirez performs the one-person show “The Waste Land” in a parking lot in Oakland. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
If you’re a fan of radio drama, whether it’s something you got interested in during the pandemic or well before, you probably cherish the art form’s unique intimacy — the way the voices seem to bounce around inside your head, the way you can listen as you are, whether you’re hiding under the covers or doing chores.