"Easter" a play about redemptive suffering, but not lacking in some humor, runs through May 14 at Undermain Theater. Images courtesy of Undermain Theater.
East Dallasite Katerine Owens is the artistic director at the ever avant-garde Undermain Theater (which is under Main in Deep Ellum). She’s getting impressive reviews for her direction of August Strindberg’s play “Easter“, which runs through May 14.
The play is about a family’s myriad misfortunes, struggles, religious rituals and redemptive suffering in the period leading up to the holy holiday. An imprisoned patriarch, a jealous husband and a mentally unstable sister are among the characters the make up the darkly amusing cast, from what I’ve read (I haven’t seen it yet).
Says Morning News theater critic Lawson Taitte, “Director Katherine Owens’ actors turn in performances as clear and as restrained as (the) set and as luminous as (the) lighting.”
He calls Easter a rare theatrical classic … an “event” and “a mystery play, even a bit of a fairy tale” and adds that “It’s definitely not like anything else you’ll see hereabouts in the foreseeable future.”
When we interviewed Owens for a 2009 story, she told us she chooses plays for her “wabi-sabi” underground theater based partly on the language of the script—she likes language driven, rich, poetic scrips, she says.
For tickets and Wed.-Sat. showtimes, visit undermain.org or call 214.747.5515 and ask about discounts for seniors, students and groups.
