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As Mary-Arrchie spins Williams’ ‘Menagerie,’ memory play is filtered through glass darkly

Jul 2, 2013 – 6:56 am
Hans Fleischmann directs Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie Mary-Arrchie Theatre at Theatre Wit credit Emily Schwartz

Review:;One of the delights of this 2013 Chicago summer is a gently revisionist production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” by Marie-Arrchie Theatre, conceived and directed by Hans Fleischmann, who also plays the role of Tom. After selling out last fall at Angel Island and transferring to Theater Wit in May, the show has extended its run to July 28. ★★★★★

‘Still Alice’ at Lookingglass: When dementia seizes a woman’s life, a family is measured

Apr 25, 2013 – 5:06 pm
Eva Barr is "Still Alice," but fading, in the play about dementia adapted and directed by Christine Mary Dunford at Lookingglass 2013 credit Liz Lauren

Review: In her play “Still Alice,” author and director Christine Mary Dunford employs a graphic metaphor to illustrate the disintegrating world of Alice, a victim of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout the play, now in its world premiere run at Lookingglass Theatre, Alice’s kitchen appliances disappear one by one, until nothing remains – until the locus, the defining “here,” of this woman’s life is no longer there. ★★★★