City/State: Houston, Tx
Month/Year: Jan 10, 2003- February 8, 2003
Directed by: Gregory Boyd
Set Desgin: Tony Staiges
Costumes: Andrea Lauer
Light Design: John Ambrosone
Sound Design: Joe Pino
Fight Director: Brian Byrnes
What makes this production transcendent, though, is the play itself. Wickedly funny as much of his dialogue is, it's the counterpoint of the quiet moments that makes the play great. George's "bergin" speech; Martha's lines about freezing her tears in the ice box; her famous revelation that she has only and always loved George, the man "who is good to me and whom I revile"; the final "exorcism" -- oh, how Albee makes us listen!
By Holly Hildebrand
TheatreMania
Artistic director Gregory Boyd's production is most notable for its uncommon sense of the ordinary. The play takes place when it was written, in 1962, and Tony Straiges' design of a middle-of-the-road, middle-class living room in a New England home is faithful to the era, but without any sense of hokiness, of "period." The room itself is neither well-kept -- there are newspapers creeping out from under the coffee table -- nor the "dump" that Martha calls it, imitating Bette Davis, in the play's opening lines.
By Steven Oxman
Variety Review
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