January 19,2019
Death and the Maiden at Kansas City Actors Theatre is riveting – this is the play for our times.

Photo: KCAT
The setting is banal. A house by the sea, simple furnishings, not big. Comfortable. It is sometime in the evening. A woman is moving around the living room.
We hear a car drive up, and the woman freezes and listens. Then she quickly turns out the lights, peeks out the window, and rushes to a desk on the other side of the room. She opens a drawer and retrieves what appears to be a .45 automatic. She silently rushes back near the door, and waits. She is terrified of whoever might be out there. (more…)