The week’s other openings
House of Gold; Double Indemnity; Pelleas & Melisande
House of Gold
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Los Angeles
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Gregory Moss’s play about JonBenét Ramsey feels “self-indulgently cryptic,“ said Backstage. Eschewing realism, he’s offering a conceptual take on children’s suffering. But at least the approach allows adult actor Jacqueline Wright to give us a “superbly” played JonBenét.
Double Indemnity
ACT: A Contemporary Theatre
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This new adaptation of James M. Cain’s tale of a femme fatale is “riveting, seamy, and eye-popping,” said The Seattle Times. Carrie Paff is “not quite as icy” as Barbara Stanwyck was in Billy Wilder’s classic film, but this play’s “ghoulishly operatic” twist “hews closer to the sinewy 1935 novel.”
Pelleas & Melisande
The Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco
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The titular couple exhibit “an almost comical acceptance” of their tragic fate in this production of an 1893 “symbolist classic,” said the Marin, Calif., Independent Journal. Still, Rob Melrose’s dance-infused staging “offers plenty of aesthetic delights” despite its wan romance.
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