“Chicago” is a satire that is absolutely still relevant, says Mona Wood-Patterson.
Co-founder of Merely Players, Wood-Patterson directs the company’s 2024 musical with one eye on a nearly 60-year-old .
After growing up in a large city, Chicago, and graduating from college and teaching in a fair-sized western Michigan town, I moved to small-town Durango with more than a bit of trepidation.
Now, when .
Two telling contemporary plays happen to be running in Durango in February. One’s a comedy, spilling into satire; the other is a finely observed realistic drama simmering with humor and edginess. Grou.
As humans, we often communicate without the use of language. When was the last time you shared a wry look with your friend that no one else saw? Felt your shoulders slump at a disappointment you suffe.
Be prepared.
A quiet moment of visual magic opens the Merely Players production of “The Tempest.” It is swiftly followed by surging seas, mighty winds, thunderclaps, lightning flashes and fearful huma.