Nine-eleven. It’s no longer just a date, it’s code, for an impossible-to-describe national catastrophe. Even at this remove nine-eleven remains a series of jangled images: a jet plane slamming into a tall building. Conservatively dressed businessmen hurtling to their deaths…
Month: September 2011
Mercy Watson To The Rescue at Childrens Theatre Co.
Mercy Watson gets where she’s going in Act 1, Scene 1, page 1: “Toast!” she cries. “Toast and butter!” Mercy, a pig, says this, oh, seven or eight hundred times during CTC’s charming Mercy Watson To The Rescue (at the…

