Like the rest of the theater world, the Williamstown Theatre Festival has spent a year shut down. But that gave it the chance to put a season’s worth of adapted-for-audio productions online with Audible Originals, where you can reach them without a three-hour drive to northwestern Massachusetts.
As with any theater season, some plays are better than others, though all feature first-rate casts (some of them with big names), as well as top-notch sound effects and interesting post-show interviews with playwright, director or both. As a whole, it’s quite an achievement.
And the full seven-play season is included with an Audible Plus online membership, $7.95 a month.
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Isabel Sandovalâs achievement in
Lingua Franca, I submit, isnât so much the breaking of boundaries or the allusion to current events (transgendered-directed film on transgendered relationships, and the perils of undocumented immigrants) but her plainspoken way of creating a mood, a feeling, the ambiance of an eerily depopulated, subtly menacing New York just this much more hostile to the marginalized.
Olivia (Sandoval) works as caregiver to the increasingly forgetful Olga (the late lovely Lynn Cohen) in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of New York (Olga sits with an orange in a kitchen, calls Olivia by phone, demands to know when she can go home; Olivia patiently reminds her that she is in fact at home, sitting in her own kitchen, surrounded by wallpaper she herself picked out). Olivia has two strikes against her: sheâs undocumented, and sheâs transgendered; she not only has to deal with ICE agents but when presentin
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot’s 2010 production of Julius Cesar. Photo by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation. Ivory Aquino and Hamilton Clancy in Julius Ceasar, 2011.
The Drilling Company’s annual production of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot is moving to the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (CSV). After 20 summers in the municipal parking lot at Ludlow and Broome streets, the quirky theatrical happening was displaced by Essex Crossing, the large development project breaking ground this summer.
This year’s performances will take place in the parking lot at 114 Norfolk St., located behind the local arts center. Hamilton Clancy, the company’s artistic director told the New York Times that he stumbled across the space while walking around the neighborhood in search of a new home. “We’re committed to the Lower East Side, because that’s where the heart of our audience was,” he explained.
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