Both parts of the 1993 Pulitzer and Tony-winning play receive a superb production led by Eric Tucker, artistic director of Bedlam, according to theater critic Terry Byrne.
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The ghost of Ethel Rosenberg joins Louis to recite Kaddish over red-baiting Roy Cohn , who won’t admit that he’s gay or has AIDS. Cohn, an acolyte of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and a mentor of Donald Trump, did in fact prosecuteBut that perfunctory synopsis doesn’t begin to encompass Kushner’s fascinating swirl of ideas about religion, race and politics, despair, abandonment, forgiveness and grace, or director Eric Tucker’s fluid vision for bringing the 1993 Pulitzer and Tony-winning epic to life.
Every aspect of this production supports Tucker’s vision for illuminating Kushner’s theme of forward motion. Deb Sivigny’s set seems bare bones but then deconstructs during the course of the play as pieces of scaffolding become rails that people lean on to look out at a view and simple black backdrops become escape routes.
Kushner’s characters mature in Part 2, and while that doesn’t mean there’s a neat resolution to anything, it does offer new insights into characters we might have taken for granted. Harper Pitt has been using Valium to dull her unhappiness, to cloud the truth about her marriage. Her hallucinations, an amusing subplot in Part 1, are heartbreaking here as they emphasize how utterly alone she is.
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