Orpheus Descending: THE FLIGHT FROM FEAR AND LONELINESS
Oakland Theater Project’s Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams touches on our deepest human vulnerabilities. Through Will Detlefsen’s perceptive direction, we see a world unfold fractured by racism, prejudice, bigotry, and social confinement. Sam Fehr’s focused set—a dry-goods store in a repressed Southern town—reflects the community’s narrow world, while drawing the audience into the emotional lives … Read more