Quick: When's the last time you saw a really good Polish morality play? As adapted and directed by Upstream Theater artistic director Philip Boehm, Helver's Night, a parable about two misfits trying to exist in an oppressive totalitarian society, delivered a jolt of harrowing theater enacted by two brilliantly modulated performers. Christopher Harris was a simpleton who was desperate to belong to the pack; Linda Kennedy brought poignancy to the gentle caretaker who could not prevent the destruction of her charge. Those of us who don't keep up to speed on the Polish arts scene had never heard of Helver's Night. Attending this totally unknown play without any preconceptions made the production a veritable body blow. For the duration of the evening, time seemed to stand still. The breathless experience was shattering yet exhilarating. Truly, a night to remember.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
| Sep 27, 2012
Awake and Sing! at Jewish Community Center's Wool Studio Theatre
| Sep 22, 2011
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
| Sep 30, 2009
Rabbit Hole
| Sep 24, 2008
A Number
| Sep 26, 2007
The Sugar Syndrome
| Sep 27, 2006
The Exonerated
| Sep 29, 2005
In a Little World of Our Own
| Sep 29, 2004
In a Little World of Our Own
| Sep 29, 2004
A Streetcar Named Desire
Hothouse Theatre Company
| Sep 24, 2003
A Streetcar Named Desire
Hothouse Theatre Company
| Sep 24, 2003