Energy of the Stage
The outlook turns tinselly with holiday shows filling the calendar. Our top picks: “Christmas Canteen” (Aurora Theatre); “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” (Theatrical Outfit); and especially “Knead” (at the Alliance through Dec. 9).
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In “Knead” at the Alliance Theatre, a woman is trying to bake bread from her mother’s incomprehensible recipe. It’s the middle of the night, and time and memory keep getting in the way.
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“Knead,” says playwright-actor Mary Lynn Owen, has gone through a “gazillion trillion” rewrites. “At one time it was a cooking show gone wrong. Finding the immediacy of the play has been a firsthand education in ‘why plays are plays.’ You’d think I’d have picked this up by now!”
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The Alliance Theatre christens its new mainstage in 2018/19 with five world premieres, two regional premieres, new work from Atlanta artists Pearl Cleage, Phillip DePoy and Mary Lynn Owen, and a piece by Faith Salie of NPR and “CBS News Sunday Morning.”
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