And it is a fine company of actors, all very accomplished, and finely directed. The piece is engaging throughout, clearly delineated characters, choreographed with some lovely moments provided by subtle shifts in body language.

The quibble I have with the production (and I wasn't alone in this response) is that vocally the actors tend to hover in the “I am giving a speech, I am reciting a written text, I am an actor repeating someone else's words” area. They do it well, occasionally slipping out of 'acting' voice into the real acting voice which actually sounds like a human being expressing thoughts in the moment, rather than an actor acting. This requires real skill, and I suspect most, if not all, of these actors do have this skill, they just needed appropriate direction to get it to happen.

My feeling is that this is a tricky piece to get it to work, they just managed it, but it would have been an amazing production had they managed to go the extra mile, vocally. If you can't find actors who can do this, wait till you can.

So, there's my ten cents. Kate will probably have something to say on the subject as well, if she gets to see it.

And it is a fine company of actors, all very accomplished, and finely directed. The piece is engaging throughout, clearly delineated characters, choreographed with some lovely moments provided by subtle shifts in body language.

The quibble I have with the production (and I wasn't alone in this response) is that vocally the actors tend to hover in the “I am giving a speech, I am reciting a written text, I am an actor repeating someone else's words” area. They do it well, occasionally slipping out of 'acting' voice into the real acting voice which actually sounds like a human being expressing thoughts in the moment, rather than an actor acting. This requires real skill, and I suspect most, if not all, of these actors do have this skill, they just needed appropriate direction to get it to happen.

My feeling is that this is a tricky piece to get it to work, they just managed it, but it would have been an amazing production had they managed to go the extra mile, vocally. If you can't find actors who can do this, wait till you can.

So, there's my ten cents. Kate will probably have something to say on the subject as well, if she gets to see it.

I backed off doing the adaptation because I think an adaptation works best as guerrilla/street theatre and the moment of war protest has really passed.

But in your three spare moments a day you should read up on the Berrigans and revel in the time when peaceful protest and social justice was still a function of the True Christians here in America and not just a faction of the Left.