Play (2019)
by Lauren Gunderson
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 11 – December 12, 2021
Set in 1912, a drama about the friendship between Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie and British mechanical engineer Bertha Aryton during a particularly difficult time in Curie’s life.
Belfast
Film (2021)
Written and Directed by Kenneth Branagh
A beautifully written, directed, and produced film set in the late 1960s in Belfast in the middle of the troubles between Protestants and Catholics.
Curlew River
Opera (1964)
A Parable for Church Performance, Op. 71
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by William Plomer
Enigma Chamber Opera
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul
138 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
October 22-23, 2021
An intimate and wonderfully performed version of the short, allegorical liturgical opera by the great British composer.
The Merchant of Venice
Play (1599)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Igor Golyak
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 23 – October 17, 2021
At first, a rambunctious take-off on the Shakespearean original, contextualizing the interior drama with a heavy dose of pantomime, but ultimately tonally complex and attentive to the problematic nature of the play.
My Name is Pauli Murray
Documentary Film (2021)
Directed by Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Amazon Studios
A superbly done documentary about the pathbreaking civil and gender rights activist.