Chapel Street Players launch their 83rd season with 1984, the powerful and disturbingly provocative dystopian tale of a world ruthlessly controlled by a totalitarian government. Based on George Orwell’s chilling classic novel, 1984, adapted for the stage by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, and William A. Miles, Jr., is a horrifying view of a society...
submitted By Anthony Renaldi The Pillowman, is a 2003 play in three acts by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. This black comedy tells the story of Katurian (Jimmy Van Buren), an amoral writer of fiction, who lives in an unnamed totalitarian state and who is interrogated regarding the gruesome content of his short stories because they...
By Mike Logothetis Somewhere at the confluence of Poe, Kafka and Tarantino lies Martin McDonagh’s spellbinding play,The Pillowman. While some would label this as black comedy, I believe it is more dramatic realism. The feelings I had when processing the Chapel Street Players production on my walk home from the theater dealt more with unhealthy...
“The Pillowman,” Chapel Street Players’ final production of the ‘16-’17 season is not for the faint of heart. Simply put, it’s a black comedy about child abuse and child murder, detached from the real world with a futuristic police state setting. It’s a strange, twisted journey where fiction and reality blur, a horror story that...
submitted by Anthony Renaldi Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow. Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow, follow, follow, that memory to experience Chapel Street Players’ production of The Fantasticks. The enchanting musical that first premiered at the Sullivan Street Theatre, an intimate, off-Broadway venue...
submitted by Anthony Renaldi Holy Traffic, the original play by Paul Maltby, follows the exploits of the Dallariva brothers, Tony, who has just recommitted himself to his Catholic faith (and is about to have that faith tested), and his scheming brother, Joey, who has hatched an unholy plan to steal the Popemobile during the pontiff’s visit...
The Diary of a Young Girl has become one of the most important texts of the Holocaust. The author of that diary, Annelies Marie Frank, better known to the world as Anne Frank, became one of the most tragic and certainly one of the most debated Jewish victims of that horrific period in world history....
Few diaries are as well-known (or as devastating) as the that belonged to Anne Frank, a Jewish teen who spent two years in hiding with her family during World War II. Chapel Street Players’ production of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” directed by Jeff Robleto, effectively transports the audience to the Secret Annex in 1940s...
When it comes to Christmas, Chapel Street Players like to do their own thing, maybe the most experimental of their regular season shows. “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)” features a trio of community theater actors as comic versions of themselves putting on a show. Tired of the same old holiday fare, they...
By Anthony Renaldi You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but do you recall Gustav the Green-Nosed Rain Goat? You don’t? Well, maybe that’s because you haven’t seen Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some). If you haven’t, you’re in luck. Chapel Street Players in Newark, Delaware is serving up this Michael...
