Jose Solís takes a look at Feeding the Dragon:
When she was a little girl, Sharon Washington lived in an apartment at the top of the St. Agnes branch of the New York Public Library, where her father was in charge of keeping the ancient, massive furnace alive. Imagining herself as a princess in some sort of enchanted castle, Washington deemed the noisy furnace a dragon, and her recollections of this era inspired her to write her first play Feeding the Dragon, which just opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village. A natural born storyteller, Washington's sensitive, graceful recollections make for a lovely experience, but one that would make more sense as an audiobook or a one-on-one conversation, rather than a full on theatrical performance, because as Washington learned growing up, the idea of enchantment can only take you so far. . . . |
