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2009 Stories by Bill Raden

• A Lie of the Mind

  published December 3, 2009

  As an inaugural staging, Studio Five Productions’ revival of Sam Shepard’s 1985 complex, fractured-memory fable proves an auspicious and... More >>

• The Crossing

  published September 17, 2009

  Whatever might be meant by a "Scottish national voice," say something between the Romantic lyricism of Robert Burns and the sentimental whimsy of... More >>

• Cannibal! The Musical

  published August 13, 2009

  Humankind can be said to be divided into two, mutually exclusive populations: those who believe South Park co-creator Trey Parker is the... More >>

• 7DS

  published August 13, 2009

  Picking up the story where the old, Amicus horror omnibuses of the ‘60s left off, creator-director Amanda Marquardt’s campy, late-night... More >>

• Sprung: A Love Story

  published July 23, 2009

  The “sprung” in writer-director Tony Marsiglia’s off-kilter, comic Grand Guignol carries multiple connotations for his antihero... More >>

• St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses

  published July 9, 2009

  For a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it’s hard to imagine doing... More >>

• Farragut North

  published July 2, 2009

  Who says they don’t write them like they used to? Playwright Beau Willimon’s enjoyable if facile romp in the cesspools of backroom... More >>

• Half of Plenty

  published May 28, 2009

  Anyone still trying to trace the roots of the great economic collapse of 2007 can stop digging. Playwright Lisa Dillman's somewhat schematic... More >>

• The Designated Mourner

  published May 7, 2009

  Written in the dark days when humanistic ideals seemed under siege by the barbarian imperatives of globalization (a.k.a. the Clinton-Gingrich... More >>

• The Prodigal Father

  published April 2, 2009

  Those worried that Larry Dean Harris' breezy drama about a gay playwright and his bigoted, Alzheimer's-addled father might have something to do... More >>

• The Neo-Sacred Revival: Three Short Plays for the Modern Soul

  published February 12, 2009

  Three smartly staged one-acts from the current generation of Padua Playwrights illustrate both the risks and the rewards of the long-running... More >>

• Hunter Gatherers

  published January 29, 2009

  Though it poses as a Bunuelian comedy of manners, San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's broad suburban satire is to the surrealist... More >>

• Boadicea

  published January 22, 2009

  Writer-director Bill Sterritt's treatment of the legendary Icenian queen's revolt against the first-century Roman occupation of Britain is more a... More >>