Back again to the theatre this evening, for the third show of the season, The God of Hell by Sam Shepard. The Halifax production is the Canadian premiere; interestingly, the play is also having its European premiere this month, at the famed Donmar Warehouse in London.
Good play, but a bit of a head-scratcher. It's a total anti-Republican, Orwellian polemic (see this review in New York magazine for a plot summary), and apparently Shepard rushed it out just before the US election last year. Which shows, given the fact that it's only just over an hour long. There's not much of a narrative - it's more a political statement, chucked out there for the audience to ponder. Still quite worthy, though. And the acting was very good - one of the leads was Mary-Colin Chisholm, from Sydney in Cape Breton, whose work I've always enjoyed.
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