Play (2007)
by Aaron Sorkin
Directed by Sarah Gazdowicz
Flat Earth Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
June 12 – 27, 2015
A tight, inventive, intimate production of Sorkin’s play about the largely uncredited inventor of television.
Edith Can Shoot Things
And Hit Them
Play (2011)
by A. Rey Pamatmat
Directed by Shawn LaCount
Company One Theatre
Boston Center For The Arts
South End, Boston
June 4 – June 27, 2015
A beautifully executed production of a wonderfully written coming of age story about young homosexuals, neglected children, and learned resiliency.
Bloomsday 111
Reflections
June 16, 1904 is Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place, and this is the 111th anniversary of it.
Three Sisters
Play (1901)
by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Paul Schmidt
Directed by Mara Rainer
Wellesley Summer Theatre
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
May 21 – June 21, 2015
An intimately persuasive account of the Chekhov classic about three sisters, their companions, a regiment of soldiers, and everyone’s dashed hopes, set in a Russian village at the turn of the twentieth century.
Madame Bovary
Film (2014)
Directed by Sophie Barthes
Based on the novel
Madame Bovary (1856)
by Gustave Flaubert
West Newton Cinema,
Newton, MA
With Mia Wasikowska
A treatment of Flaubert’s celebrated nineteenth century novel about a passionate and self-destructive woman dissatisfied in her marriage to a country doctor.