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A Play in Two Parks - Love's Labors Lost a Comic Jewel at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis

A Play in Two Parks – Love’s Labors Lost a Comic Jewel at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis

By Andrea Braun Contributing Writer Love’s Labor’s Lost is a “play” in the strictest sense of the word, and it’s fun to watch the characters pontificate, read their letters aloud (even if a couple of them go awry), flirt, and stretch language to illogical limits and syllogistic absurdity.

It’s well known in theatre circles that this early work in the Shakespeare canon isn’t often performed and…

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"No Exit" at SATE Holds up a Mirror in a Mirrorless Room

“No Exit” at SATE Holds up a Mirror in a Mirrorless Room

By Bradley Rohlf Contributing Writer “Welcome to Hell,” a cast member greets the audience as they enter the theater. Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble (SATE) has taken on Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” as part of its “Season of Entrapment,” presenting an engaging production with a new translation by Alyssa Ward..

“No Exit” is a standard-bearer for modern existentialist thought. Sartre was a…

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