cover image by Trina Baucom
“...Sherry Kramer's inventively
structured, colorfully written and frequently lyrical play.... The narrative
fluidly shifts back and forth between the present and the span of a few days two
years earlier, when Jean and Marilyn met and Jean received the fateful phone
call from home informing her of David's death....
...this thoughtful meditation on loss....”
Douglas J Keating, The Philadelphia Enquirer
“...Kramer is working with some provocative material: Jean and Marilyn, a
pair of red-haired temptresses (or so they like to think), meet in an enchanted
boudoir setting of bent willow and diaphanous draperies, find that they share a
million and one likes and dislikes, old boyfriends, nasty habits and family
patterns, and fall in love because of that almost magical twinship....
Kramer does, however, have a way with verbal imagery. Woven through the
script are wonderful references to fairy tales—Snow
White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel...The
playwright is also adept at monologues chock-full of telling details....”
Pamela Sommers, The Washington Post
“...All the scenes are interspersed with lines from previous scenes and
foreshadowings of things to come, so there is a coiled, spiralled tension
instead of the suspense of an ordinary linear plot.
Except for their monologues about death—and
the one opening the second as is a stunner—the
actresses are always in duet....
...DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH is a stirring, annoying and difficult piece of
work. But an absorbing one....”
Elizabeth C Donahoe, The Washington Blade
"...Kramer's play is like a
puzzle: after slowly and painstakingly connecting a series of dots, one uncovers
an integrated image out of what appeared to be chaos...."
Mary Shen Barnidge, Reader (Chicago)
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