“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
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Theatre and Age
Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
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Last Spring, Dementia Made It to Broadway! Part 2
Last spring, dementia made it to Broadway! Let me be clear: I am an Avant-garde type and I am wary...
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Dementia: The Theater Season’s “In” Disease Part 1
Not so long ago characters didn’t lose their memories onstage, even if on rare occasion actors...
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A Golden Age of Theater for Japan’s Seniors
At the age of 91, Saitama resident Izumi Noguchi is speaking at his first press conference — at...
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National Theatre Asks Actors Over-80 to Improvise Play Without Script
A new play staged by the National Theatre will thrust actors in their 70s and 80s onto the stage...
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“Seventeen” at Belvoir – A Brilliant Theatrical Event
Our experience of plays is always profoundly affected by how they end: comedy or tragedy, death or...
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