Tag: morag shepherd
Many of us overlook the fact that we do not live in a politically correct world. But, there also are numerous reasons why trying to be politically correct or censoring the words we believe might be too...
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series of reviews from the 2021 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. For the first part, see here.
With the first weekend of the 2021 Great...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Utah Review will present reviews of nine Great Salt Lake Fringe shows in a two-part series on Aug. 2-3.
In a recent Facebook post, Utah playwright Morag Shepherd, who has participated...
INTRODUCTION
One year ago, when The Utah Review presented the 2019 edition of the top 10 moments of the Utah Enlightenment, it was a jubilant representation of Utah’s integral strengths as a community of...
Sometimes, love and romance are fantastical tales of immortal connections reignited through the experience of reincarnation. There also is the mystifying sense of love at first sight. And, then there is déjà vu, that sensation we are...
PLAN-B THEATRE FREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOUR (FEST):
FLORA MEETS A BEE
The sense of feeling borrowed can
become alienation. In Morag Shepherd’s Flora
Meets A Bee, the latest play in Plan-B
Theatre’s successful Free Elementary School Tour (FEST)...
Flora is eight years old. A Latina child, she has been in three foster homes since she was five. Change on such a frequent basis would test any adult’s resilience. Whenever Flora pulls a penny she keeps...
The remarkable Sackerson theater company’s latest production A Brief Waltz in a Little Room: 23 Short Plays about Walter Eyer is one of the most incisive renderings of the consequential meanings and impact of a sense of place...
THE POST OFFICE
In the fading daylight, Ash (Alexis Bitner, Olympus High
School) tells the others surrounding her bed, “I can see the courier riding
down the narrow road that winds like a ribbon through the...
Famous or unhistoric, the individual embodies a convoluted, mysterious existence. Fortunately but stubbornly so, we have finally given up our allegiance to the grand ‘great man’ style narrative that took hold in the 19th century. We all...
