My Favorite Theatre of 2021
Emily Furlich Emily Furlich

My Favorite Theatre of 2021

As it turns out, getting over my perfectionism and posting to Diva Drivel more often was harder than I thought. Between my own hang-ups and the demands my graduate classes made on my time last semester, I found it difficult to write. For the moment, however, I’m back because I realized that I could come up with the time and energy to make a simple list of my favorite theatre from 2021. Perhaps this is something that I could manage on a month-by-month basis in 2022? No promises.

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Specters of Male Violence in “Especially Heinous” and What the Constitution Means to Me
Emily Furlich Emily Furlich

Specters of Male Violence in “Especially Heinous” and What the Constitution Means to Me

When I was growing up my mom often repeated a warning to my sister and me about men. She warned us that not every man we meet would be as trustworthy as our dad and our poppop. Sometimes she didn’t put our other grandfather or our uncles in this category of trustworthy men, which I don’t think reflects on their character; rather, she knew that even the men closest to us often have the potential to betray us.

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