Boston Globe Review of The Stone

Publication date: September 20, 2019


Publishing URL: Boston Globe


Author: Don Aucoin


Excavating the Truth in Arlekin’s spellbinding ‘The Stone’

Excavating the Truth in Arlekin's spellbinding 'The Stone' - Boston Globe review.

David Gamarnik and Olga Sokolova in Arlekin Players Theatre’s production of “The Stone.” IRINA DANILOVA

NEEDHAM — Our collective memory of the past is always vulnerable to self-serving revisions, never more perniciously than when what’s at stake is the truth is about a monstrous chapter of world history.

In Arleking Players Theatre’s fascinating production of German playwright Marius von Marienberg’s “The Stone,” the mind-bending scope of Nazi crimes is distilled to the 60-year story of a single house in Dresden that is wrested from its Jewish owners in 1935 by a young German couple.

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