Born-Again Crow

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow is perhaps the longest play title ever but the play itself, written by Caleigh Crow, is a fast moving ninety minutes.  It’s a collaboration between Native Earth Performing Arts and Buddies in Bad Times and it opened on Thursday night in a production directed by Jessica Carmichael.

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Women of the Fur Trade

Francis Končan’s Women of the Fur Trade opens tonight (Thursday) at the Aki Studio in a production by Native Earth Performing Arts.  I saw a preview last night.  It’s not an easy play to describe.  It’s a comedy.  But with several twists.  It has a historic setting.  But it plays fast and loose with time.  It’s funny, disturbing and relates events from a female point of view that rarely get seen that way.

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