| This is terrible news. There are too few companies examining the rich dramatic repertory as it is. With last year's demise of the Pearl, it seems only the Mint, the Red Bull and Transport Group are left, along with the Keen, which has a governing principle that limits what it will stage and has been starting to move toward new work too. The Mint alone, focusing on works that are almost totally unfamiliar, has shown that there's a huge repertory that's undiscovered and well worth knowing. That's also true, I think, of more famous writers: how many times must we see A Doll's House instead of Lady from the Sea or Little Eyolf? TACT's She Stoops to Conquer a couple season ago was the first time in more than 20 years I've had a chance to see it, and the earlier production was in London. Such plays are the infrastructure of modern theater, and they shouldn't be moldering away on shelves. |
