![]() ![]() ![]() They embrace the language and the sadness and the drama. The Write Act Repertory actors are really very good. There’s no action to distract from central themes, simple wardrobe, no staging, and what is left is the core of the story – the people, the sounds the emotion and the tale well written and well told. Photo by Anne Mesa courtesy of Write Act Repertory. Gale Madyun, Dean Ghaffari and Hettie Lynne Hurtes. I find onstage radio style plays to be a very intimate way of telling a story. Write Act Repertory’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” is told as a radio play, with the cast playing many roles and sitting onstage while the story unfolds. ![]() This stirring and obviously very relevant story of pandemic sickness is told through the account of a business man, H.F., living in London in 1664, when the black death hit the world hard and killed half the population of London. Keough, produced by John Lant and Anne Mesa, running through December 19 at The Brickhouse Theatre in the NoHo Arts District. A theatre review of Write Act Repertory’s “A Journal of The Plague Year,” written by Willard Manus, adapted from Daniel Defoe’s book, directed by Daniel E. ![]()
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