Mark Cartier

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Gilded stage

Monmouth shifts time with Twelfth Night
In the Theater at Monmouth's Twelfth Night , the Bard's gender-bending foibles play out in a proscenium within a proscenium — or, more strictly speaking, a sound stage within a proscenium:
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 29, 2009

Measuring up

Shakespeare passes judgement at Monmouth
Unsavoriness is rife in old Vienna.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 15, 2007

Moral flexibility

Investigating the darkness with Tom Jones
As a professional morality consultant stands naked and busted in a young woman’s closet, we in the audience receive a rather acute observation about virtue.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 08, 2007

Courageous convicts

My Three Angels at the Theater at Monmouth
On this hot Christmas Eve in the penal colony of French Guiana, the good Ducotel family’s lot could certainly use some improvement.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 11, 2007

Spirits + sprites

Humanity deserted, reborn at Monmouth
The near-uninhabited spirit island of Shakespeare’s The Tempest , at the Theater at Monmouth, is evoked with a set swathed in white.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 12, 2006