Below are excerpts from Joyce’s Choices’ review of the Stone. We thank them for their reviews, and have linked its full article below.
“The play is a difficult one, whose action we enter midway, and which is devised to reveal itself in layers as its conflicting truths and lies sneak up on you and pull you in. But the Arlekin Players provide detailed program notes to fill in historical context and guide you through. The play tells the story of a house, its many inhabitants, and its secrets, buried and excavated by this troupe’s daring approach.”
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“Darya Denisova as the German matriarch Witha must have witchcraft at her disposal. Her scenes with Jewish matriarch Mieze played by the intense and stunning Rimma Gluzman are riveting. All of the performances are passionately delivered, the challenging production highly condensed to reveal its truths slyly, suddenly, and without sentimentality.”