July 8, 2021
Regina Aquino stars in the one-woman show We re Gonna Die at Round House Theatre. (Photo: Paige Hernandez)
Round House Theatre which has produced numerous virtual plays during the pandemic cautiously invited a limited, masked and socially distanced audience back into the building for its production of “We’re Gonna Die” and filmed it for digital streaming audiences. The theater plans to open its doors to everyone for in-person viewing come fall.
The play is a mixed bag of complicated emotions about hope in the face of despair.
Although it has clearly good intentions, the choice to produce “We’re Gonna Die” as the U.S. tries to recover from COVID-19 might seem a bit tone deaf to the families and loved ones of the more than 600,000 people in the United States who did die during the pandemic.
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In the most trying of times, the Round House Theatre has managed to put together a pretty remarkable season, entirely online but leaning on one-person showcases that eliminated the need of distancing among cast members.
They perform on fully dressed theater sets (instead of a Zoom window), before a minuscule audience, either to bolster the actor or provide laughs in the spaces needed.
As with previous offerings this season, the streamed presentation of Lucy Alibar s Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up begins with the few audience members, in masks and face shields (and sometimes masks
and face shields) entering the lobby and getting their tickets torn. Just 10 people were allowed to see Beth Hylton s performance live for the two performances filmed last month.
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“Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up,” written by Oscar-nominated (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) Lucy Alibar, is directed by Ryan Rilette and has opened virtually at the Round House Theatre. The play is a one-woman show starring Beth Hylton (an Everyman Theatre resident company member), one of the best local talents who carries the weight of this play with aplomb.
The play is semi-autobiographical but you will notice parallels to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It has two main themes. The first is that everyone, no matter how heinous their crimes, has the right to competent counsel when on trial under the 6
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Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is the subject of a new play - and he s also the playwright s husband
Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post
Jan. 22, 2021
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Actor William DeMeritt portrays Nathan Wolfe in The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson s one-man play based on the real-life virologist (who is also Gunderson s husband).Marin Theatre Company
As not just the husband of a playwright but the subject of her latest work, virologist Nathan Wolfe knows that when it comes to onstage depictions of real people, the writer gets the last word.
Wolfe surmised as much long before he saw himself in Lauren Gunderson s The Catastrophist, a new one-man play that will be available to stream, starting Tuesday, in a filmed version co-produced by Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., and the Marin Theatre of Mill Valley, Calif. Speaking alongside his wife over video chat from their Bay Area home, Wolfe recalls first learning the power of Gunder
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