Towards a Poetics of the Person

Liz Appel’s play Wights was premiered at Crow’s Theatre on Wednesday night in a production directed by Chris Abraham.  It’s a complex satire on Academia and academic relationships with a touch of comedy/horror; Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf with just a smidgeon of Shawn of the Dead.  And it takes place in the immediate run up to the 2024 US Presidential Election. with all the hopes and fears for the future packed into that.

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