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Worlds on the Brink: Walden and A Woman Among Women
Amy Berryman and Julia May Jonas invoke and gut renovate Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller (not to mention Thoreau).
Casualties from “a mega-tsunami that hit the East Coast” have just topped 1 million, and while the government pours its resources into off-world survival schemes, a growing contingent of the population lives in protest (with varying degrees of fanaticism) to the idea of using advanced technology to jump ship. Though Cassie, an ace astronaut and botanist who’s just returned from a yearlong moon mission, might at first seem far less trad than her sister, who’s homesteading in the hinterlands with her Earth Advocate partner, Bryan (Motell Foster), Berryman has crafted a web of characters delicate enough that one pluck of a strand sends vibrations through the whole structure. A Woman Among Women, directed with a light, almost whimsical touch by Sarah Hughes at the new Starr, represents the “All” in the cycle: Miller’s All My Sons, with its backyard setting and its strains of Greek tragedy and buried moral transgression, is rattling around in Jonas’s hopper, and she’s made a fascinating new meal out of it — playful, idiosyncratic, and ultimately wrenching.
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