Mike Vargo

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Whooo Are You? Perhaps “Mnemonic” Will Help You Remember

“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.  Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present…” The scene is from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. In Mnemonic, the play currently being presented by Quantum Theatre, Alice goes down a rather different kind of rabbit hole. The Alice in Mnemonic (played by Carolina…

while father Prospero (Ron Siebert) casts a spell

Sassy, A Little Trashy, and Just In Time for Summer: It’s the Remake of the Remake of “The Tempest”

You realize, of course, that you cannot do summer theater properly unless you catch a remake. Of Shakespeare, that is. Altered Shakespeare is red-hot everywhere this year. In Chicago, for instance, they’ve got Othello: the Re, the latest “add-rap-tation” by The Q Brothers; and New York has a new musical based on Love’s Labour’s Lost…

steeped in wickedness

Speak of the Devil: That’s What They Do in Abigail/1702, and People Love it

Abigail/1702 takes a strange story and makes it stranger. On opening night at City Theatre, as will be described shortly, it proved an unusual reaction from the audience. And you know you are in for a strange evening as soon as you sit down and open the play’s program. To avoid spoilers, it lists a…

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