Hey y’all! My name is Connor McNinch, and I am a rising Senior BFA Theatre and Performance major! I was last performing with Emerson Stage in Measure for Measure this past semester as Lucio! This summer I am working up in Whitefield, New Hampshire as […]
Tag: Big Love
Bloody Love
By Robert Onorato Big Love is violent. There’s no way around it. You probably know this. You’ve read it, or heard about our production from an actor or production team member, or if nothing else have seen our poster, which makes it clear in […]
EC + CM = <3
Written by Robert Onorato, Assistant Dramaturg Emerson College loves Charles Mee. Emerson Stage’s production of Big Love is only the latest bit of Mee-love the students and faculty of Emerson have lavished upon and cult playwright in recent years. Big Love has been taught in […]
BIG LOVE: an update of a classic myth with a timeless theme
By Robin Goldberg The central storyline of Big Love is based on a classic Greek myth, The Danaids. The writer, Aeschylus, drew his inspiration from Danais, a Greek epic poem written by a “cyclic poet” (one of Homer’s contemporaries). The poem existed mostly in fragments and has been largely […]