https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/220 Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:54:38 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=220 Waiting for the light to change at Broadway and 18th, the other night, I eavesdropped on a couple of guys who, like me, had just come from seeing Stephen Adly Guirgis's Our Lady of 121st Street at the Union Square Theater. They were talking about the unconventional relationship between the set and the action of the play, hardly any of which actually takes place in the space we spend the evening looking at---a large, institutional room that, depending on how the light is falling, can look like either a funeral parlor lobby or a parochial school lounge. What's curious is Continue reading]]>