The Memory of Water is a solid and predictable family drama about three daughters who return home to bury their mother. As if by clockwork, the skeletons emerge from the closet.

"All it is, it’s a carnival. What’s special? What draws us?” asks Roma in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. He’s waxing philosophical on life as he draws in a potential sale. For this version of the carnival, The Main Street Theatre Company gives us David Mamet’s masterpiece about morality and salesmen. So what is special?

The United States has elected its first African American president, and much public discourse has centered around the significance of this turn in American history. It is, of course, a tremendous moment, but what bothers me about the current media hoopla surrounding Obama is the sub-text of absolution; it is as if by having elected a man of colour to the most powerful position in the U.S. government, the rest of America can wipe the slate clean of its past and ignore its present tragedies.

they are composing a dance
working and reworking
and writing it down and changing things and discovering things and
going home to write it all down again and come back the next day with new ideas