If you thought the nearly seven-hour duration or the lineup of more than 150 characters spoke to the scope of “Nicholas Nickleby,” try counting the costumes and sets that allow the show to go on.
PlayMakers Repertory Company has started a new program to engage audience members before the play even opens.
Rha Goddess brought her audience into the tumultuous mind of a young woman suffering from manic depression with her performance Friday night.The show pushed people to challenge traditional notions of mental health and the definition of sanity.Rha Goddess: Low3.5 of 5 stars
UNC alumna Carina Cortese never expected to discover family secrets in an Argentine history book.But during her sophomore year when she studied abroad in Argentina, Cortese discovered that the brutal murder of her mother’s uncle was made famous in a popular history book.Yet she had never heard the story.She turned this experience into an autobiographical performance titled “After-Images of the Disappeared.”
