Northman (directed by Robert Egger and co-written by Sjón) provides us with a dramatic epic of what it means to be Viking. What it means to be drenched in other-worldly motivations for honor, to compel the human body into directions which are far beyond being dogs.     The saga experience is realized in its excellently crafted mythical historical intimation of the....

Ulrike Müller at Susanne Vielmetter provides a dutiful effort at better understanding geometrical form through a simplification of pattern, towards an idea of necessary and sufficient with her On Edge opening. It is in the sense of, not so much contrast, as it is boundary which gives us a measured sense of completeness. In such a decadent age of insurmountable worldly pleasures, to find beauty....

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood at City Garage Theatre (directed by Frédérique Michel) presents us a comparative storyline to the Greek Heroic Epic Poem The Illiad by Homer – the poet which Plato referred to as the Teacher of the Greeks. It is in this heritage or inheritance of the story which Ms. Atwood provides a healthy counterpoint – one from the honest perspective of Penelope – of....