Topic: Lee Blessing

The Great Game is nourishing and demanding

This cycle of 19 pieces of drama - a dozen short plays and seven interludes - explores the conflict in Afghanistan from a range of perspectives. "This country is a deathtrap for foreign armies," observes one of the soldiers in the opening segment, Stephen ...

Weekend Highlights: 2/5-2/7

As we prepare ourselves for Valentine's Day, this week brings a perfect event for couples. The "Forever For Real" workshop is Saturday at the Skirvin Hotel, a one-day relationship-building program for all couples married, engaged or considering marriage.. Elsewhere, the Heartland ...

A Body of Water

Waking up in bed with a naked stranger is discomfiting enough, but Moss (Cristofer) and Avis (Lahti) have it even worse: At the start of Lee Blessing's elliptical A Body of Water, these two evidently well-to-do fiftysomethings-who may have been married ...
Cryptic, interpretive drama `A Body of Water' resounds long after it endsPlaywright Lee Blessing chose an unusual approach to storytelling in his cryptic, interpretive drama " "Rather than gradually reveal the details of his characters' history and present disposition, he instead cloaks them ...