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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2017
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PATRIARCHAL PARALLELS ‘Echoes’ tells two stories of female oppression experienced 175 years apart — and how it’s still happening today.
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wo women are standing on a wooden stage without a backdrop. One wears a
Victorian-era lace dress and the other, a jean jacket and hijab. Three feet and 175 years separates them. “Echoes” isn’t about the
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differences between the actors onstage, however. It’s a play about two parallel stories of female
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oppression with a narrative that hasn’t changed, despite the nearly two centuries between them. Urbanite Theatre’s latest production is a 70-minute play with only two actors and no intermission. Playwright Henry Naylor’s script is a strong feminist text, Director Brendan Ragan says, so he was tasked with finding two powerful female actors to carry it.
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Mari Vial-Golden (Samira) and Kate Berg (Tillie) share the stage for the entirety of “Echoes,” but the two actors never interact.
Review: ‘Evita’
Asolo Rep brings Eva Perón’s improbable story to life in a lush, freshly imagined production. YOUROBSERVER.COM