Levine: It seems like Simone Weil might have a response to all this …
A hush falls as Colleen Werthmann transforms herself into the very image of the famous Frenchwoman …
“Are we permitted then, to be as insensitive as the sun , we who see the city what must perish …”
And after this rebuke to our entire enterprise is delivered, the offer of beer is raised, and a companionable distribution occurs. Once more, through craft and goodwill, it seems that theatre can in fact engender community.
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