Below are excerpts from the Boston Globe review praising The Stone. We thank them for their review, and we have attached its full article link below.
“In Arlekin Players Theatre’s fascinating production of German playwright Marius van Mayenburg’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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“That moment is framed as an encounter between the two wives of the home-buying and -selling families: canny, self-justifying Witha (subtly and indelibly portrayed by Darya Denisova, who is the standout in a uniformly fine cast of eight) and stony-faced, eerily still Mieze (Rimma Gluzman, in an exceptionally disciplined performance). With a cold fury icing every word she speaks, Mieze lets Witha know exactly what she thinks of her, as Witha and her husband, Wolfgang (David Gamarnik), tighten the vise of “negotiations’’ on the Jewish family, knowing they have no way to prevent being displaced from their home.”