NKU YES Fest: “New Year’s Eve at the Stop-N-Go”
The setting is December 31, 1999, when Y2K was on everyone’s mind and conspiracy theories about the end of the world abounded.
April 14, 2022
The setting is December 31, 1999, when Y2K was on everyone’s mind and conspiracy theories about the end of the world abounded.
…the play is thought provoking, often funny, sometimes sad and at the end quite frightening. Definitely it is engrossing.
Cincy Shakes is known for creative reinventions of Shakespeare’s works and this is certainly a creative gamble. I am happy to say that it pays off.
Director Matthew Lewis Johnson transports Shakespeare’s story about 400 years from the 1590’s to the neon-soaked pulse of the 1980’s.
In “trying times” theatre reminds us that endurance is not passive, it is creative. Through every story, we find our way forward, together.