Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests)
Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and “The …
Author Archives: Drew
The Russian Molière
Written in the Fall of 2012 for a reading of Ostrovsky’s Crazy Money, a truly unique play that combines a Restoration, …
Putting Russia Onstage: Nikolai Gogol’s National Comedy
When Nikolai Gogol wrote The Government Inspector in 1836, there was no such thing as a Russian drama. Tsar Nicholas …
Emilia Galotti
Written in the Spring of 2012 to accompany a free reading, directed by Jenny Lord. According to contemporary reports, the …
Shakespeare’s English Comedy (THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR)
As Samuel Johnson once observed, The Merry Wives of Windsor “is remarkable for the variety and number of the personages, …
The Comedy of Art
Written in the Spring of 2011 for a production of The Servant of Two Masters, directed by Chris Bayes. -DL The …
The American Dollhouse
Written in the Winter of 2011 for Michael Kahn’s production of Strange Interlude at the Shakespeare Theatre. The first …
Sejanus
Written in the Winter of 2011-12 to accompany a free reading of the Ben Jonson play, directed by Alan Paul. …
Mysteries & Metamorphoses (TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA)
We can never know for sure what Elizabethan audiences would have made of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, but they …
Egmont
Written in the WInter of 2011 to accompany a free reading of the play, directed by Gus Heagerty. Goethe started …
Drew Lichtenberg 