Email Author Tim Appelo

2008 Stories by Tim Appelo

• Familial Bruising

  published May 14, 2008

  "A woman is her mother," said Anne Sexton. "That's the main thing." Granted, not... More >>

• Sinking Into Strange Lands

  published April 30, 2008

  You gotta love the Seattle theater scene. Where else can you see, in a single week, two radically important reinventions of... More >>

• Loosening the Bow

  published April 16, 2008

  Nabokov called translation "profanation of the dead," but I'll bet Sophocles would like Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's... More >>

• Half-Laughs

  published April 9, 2008

  Two of the more important debut shows of the fringe-theater season, The Beaux' Stratagem and Demonology,... More >>

• The Pain Remains

  published April 2, 2008

  How do you fit the Holocaust onto a stage? Carefully. Face the fact too faithfully and you get an unassimilable horror show.... More >>

• Wreckage and Knifeplay

  published March 26, 2008

  Because Kevin Kling is a funny, foxily faux-folksy Minnesota public-radio storyteller at home on the stage and the page, he... More >>

• Overgrown Kids

  published March 19, 2008

  If you're an impetuous young troupe aspiring to do Shakespeare, what better choice than Romeo and Juliet, an... More >>

• A Less-Genteel Molière in This Effusive Rep Production

  published March 5, 2008

  In any English-language production of Molière, the elephant in the room is poet Richard Wilbur, the greatest American... More >>