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Village Playhouse Captures the “Carnage”
AS ITS TITLE IMPLIES, “God of Carnage,”now playing at the Village Playhouse through May 5, is a contradiction in terms—a dark comedy where civility dissolves into hostility, marriages tear at the seams, and humanity erupts into rants. Playwright Yasmina Reza is a Paris-born author who gained early recognition for her work. The original Le... Read »
A Wrenching “Turn of the Screw”
IN A FEROCIOUS PERFORMANCE where he portrays three different characters—sometimes within seconds of each other—Robbie Thomas proves himself one of Charleston’s most versatile actors. So fascinating are his transfigurations in this Village Playhouse production that you forget you are watching a psychological thriller dubbed a ghost story. “The Turn of The Screw” is Jeffrey... Read »
Striking “Streetcar” at Village Playhouse
“I DON’T WANT REALISM. I want magic!” says Blanche in a line that captures the essence of all the characters in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer-Prize winning play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” now at the Village Playhouse. Well, what they want is exactly what none of them get in this epitome of Williams’ taut psychological portrayals,... Read »
Political Persuasions
SAMUEL JACKEL does a nice job portraying the conflicting motives of his character Stephen Bellamy in Farragut North, now running through the end of the month at The Village Playhouse in Mount Pleasant. In what has become commonplace off stage, we see this on-stage political aspirant (in this case, a press secretary) go from... Read »
Keely Enright, director
Keely Enright is the founder and producing director of The Village Playhouse and Repertory Company in Mt Pleasant, SC. A native of Los Angeles and graduate of UCLA, she moved to Charleston 15 years ago to start her own theatre. She and her husband, managing director Dave Reinwald (who regularly acts as well as... Read »
“Merry Christmas Everybody”
WHO WOULD THINK that so much could revolve around a BB gun? Having never seen A Christmas Story—the play adapted from a 1983 comedy film based on the short stories of Jean Shepherd—I went expecting a children’s story about Christmas. And that’s what I got. After all, there are more kids (9) than adults... Read »
Twisting Around Oliver
SURPRISINGLY, this is not a story about Oliver Twist. Rather, it is a story about the characters that gather and swirl and “twist” around him. Oliver himself is extremely passive and noncommittal (most of his lines, in fact, are single-sentence replies). Yet he and his unique fate create a circumstance that reveals the bitter... Read »
