A young adult novel has a difficult transition to the stage
Shipping Dock
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Shipping Dock’s “Say You Love Satan”
A sinfully good time with the prince of darkness
and his would-be boyfriend
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A longwinded “View”
Any daughter who shares a co-dependent relationship with her
mother can relate to Amy’s View.
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Low level for Shipping Dock
Maybe it’s me. Clare McIntyre’s Low Level Panic has won respectful attention from English and Polish theater mavens as a potent drama. It also makes some lively and amusing comments on women’s sensibilities as they resist male-dominated society’s efforts to define them in pornographic terms. But I find the play incoherent, annoying, and sometimes tedious. […]
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Fuddy talk, crazy play
David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers slowly unearths haunting mysteries. I’ll tell you all the plot revelations now. You’re unlikely to remember the details when you go see Shipping Dock Theatre’s production of this goofy, disturbing drama, anyway. And if you do, they’ll probably turn out to be untrue. What happens, you see, is that Claire […]
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When tolerance is merely academic
Although its subject is controversial and its characters’ responses are emotional, Shipping Dock’s current, challenging production is thoughtful, rather low-key, and pleasant. Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter takes its central character, Sarah Daniels, the dean of students at an elegant, Vermont liberal arts college, through conflicts with both minority students who feel discriminated against and […]
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Summer treat
Unfortunately, InterPlay, Shipping Dock Theatre’s annual festival of new plays, can schedule only three performances each during two summer weekends, so you have only this coming weekend to see the two plays that opened last week. I suspect, though, that Craig Pospisil’s delectable Months on End will show up again. In 1995, InterPlay introduced […]
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Nothing but love
It’s obviously Barbara Biddy’s enormous affection for Jonathan Harvey’s sweetly quirky play Beautiful Thing that energized Shipping Dock’s exceptional production. Not an easy assignment, the play about awkward first love between two working-class teenage boys in southeast London carries the added burden of comparison with a film version that has become internationally beloved. Well, Biddy […]
