Creature
Description
Trembling at the center of Heidi Schreck’s devoutly peculiar medieval-themed comedy is her version of the real-life 14th-century religious mystic Margery Kempe (Sofia Jean Gomez), a fractious woman troubled by demons and irritating as hell. Schreck’s script has narrative simplicity, contemporary zing and lyrical flights of startling loveliness; if only director Leigh Silverman gave it the murk it needs. The production, despite championship acting, treads too lightly, and sheds some of its mysteries along the way.
When
Nov 21 8pm