Malaga Adventure: Why Lizzie Bright is a must-see
by Sarah Erkert, Production Dramaturg Sometimes, as a dramaturg, you feel like much of the research you do on a play is for naught. The material can be dense and…
An Actor Speaks: Malaga Adventure
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is the next show at Emerson Stage, with public performances in the Semel Theater Nov 1-3 (two school matinees, playing Oct 31 and Nov 1,…
Malaga Island: The Setting of Our Play
By Sarah Erkhart This blog post was cross-posted from the Lizzie Bright Dramaturgical Blog. Hello and welcome to the dramaturgical blog for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, the…
Bloody Love
By Robert Onorato Big Love is violent. There’s no way around it. You probably know this. You’ve read it, or heard about our production from an actor or production…
EC + CM = <3
Written by Robert Onorato, Assistant Dramaturg Emerson College loves Charles Mee. Emerson Stage’s production of Big Love is only the latest bit of Mee-love the students and faculty of Emerson…
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE: speechlessness in the literal, figurative, and historical sense
By Jamie Hovis Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale is a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of Philomele as told in Sophocles’ Tereus and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The story follows two sisters, Athenian princesses, Procne and…
BIG LOVE: an update of a classic myth with a timeless theme
By Robin Goldberg The central storyline of Big Love is based on a classic Greek myth, The Danaids. The writer, Aeschylus, drew his inspiration from Danais, a Greek epic poem written by a “cyclic…
Who is Tartuffe?
Check out these videos on the inveterate con man, Tartuffe, to hear what some of those who have spent a lot of time with him over the past month think…
Journey to the Jungle
Last week we welcomed the twenty-first annual NewFest production to the stage with the black comedy, Rough & Tumble, by Patrick McDonald. Patrick is the recipient of the 2012 Rod…