'VENUS IN FUR' David Ives brought a moribund Broadway genre, the sex comedy, roaring back to life with his sneaky two-hander about a sexually fraught encounter between a desperate but calculating actress and a high-handed playwright-director.
We're proud to feature an excerpt detailing a particular fraught encounter between Blake and his erratic brother, Scott.
But the teeter-tottering test of wills that takes place in "Venus in Fur," a tasty new comedy-drama by David Ives at the Classic Stage Company, makes even the most fraught encounter between a domineering director and a sensitive performer seem like a play date in the sandbox.
Ms. Perry neatly differentiates all three roles she plays, but is particularly fine as a young woman whose fraught encounter with Juliana at the family beach house on Cape Cod (the "other place" of the title) brings the play to a moving conclusion.
In her new play, "The Treatment," which depicts a series of fraught encounters between a traumatized war veteran and a military psychologist, Eve Ensler tackles a passel of big-ticket issues about the moral and psychological rot that are the toxic byproducts of military conflict, with implicit reference to the American invasion of Iraq.
The fraught encounter with living works of art, marked by time as we all are, is electrifying.
Dispatching Polonius in the emotionally fraught encounter with his mother, Gertrude Miranda Fosterr), Mr. Benz's Hamlet seems delighted with himself, if a little petulantly disappointed that the fox has dashed away once again.
Ms. Yokoshi — who has nearly 70 videotapes documenting this extraordinary, at times fraught, encounter — described it as her most intensely difficult but rewarding project.
And then there are the tears, the oh so many tears: wracking sobs, misty eyes, messy heaves, all trickling and streaming out from one fraught encounter to the next.
