In the one-act dark comedy, which premièred at the Humana Festival in 2010, Stiles and James Wirt play virtual strangers who reunite after a one-night stand, with very different expectations for the future of their relationship.
A three-act dark comedy that is often likened to "Hamlet," it concerns the ideological conflict between a bohemian couple, who lead lives of cheerful unregulated licentiousness, and their young adult son, who comes home from college determined to impose a rigidly traditional order on the household.
The supporting cast — clad in bright colors in the first acts, darker leather in the last — is largely competent, but few are able to individualize their roles, so their sufferings cannot involve us as Richard's exultation in his perfidy does.
At the opening of Act II, "Dark Sisters" almost transforms into a different kind of opera.
Opened by the city's Balearic institutions The Unabombers and Zutekh, the first live act is Dark Sky, playing an atmospheric take on future garage with a live drummer – the tiny sticks of his electronic kit means he is claustrophobically hemmed in by it, a little ball of precise energy.
(Tester, environmentalists, and food activists have dubbed the GOP bills the "Denying Americans the Right to Know Act," or DARK Act).
"Still Standing" and "Red Blooded Woman" were performed in the first act, "After Dark" and "Chocolate" in the second, "Slow" and "Obsession" in the third, and "Secret (Take You Home)" in the last.
The two Venice acts are dark and violent.
The Official Secrets Act had darker ramifications for her family, however, "because you can't confide," she says.
