Publication date: September 20, 2019
Publishing URL: Boston Globe
Author: Don Aucoin
Excavating the Truth in Arlekin’s spellbinding ‘The Stone’
David Gamarnik and Olga Sokolova in Arlekin Players Theatre’s production of “The Stone.” IRINA DANILOVA
NEEDHAM — Our collective memory of the past is always vulnerable to self-serving revisions, never more perniciously than when what’s at stake is the truth is about a monstrous chapter of world history.
In Arleking Players Theatre’s fascinating production of German playwright Marius von Marienberg’s “The Stone,” the mind-bending scope of Nazi crimes is distilled to the 60-year story of a single house in Dresden that is wrested from its Jewish owners in 1935 by a young German couple.