One of the delights of Triangle theater in 2011 is the emergence of recent Barton College graduate Jess Jones as one of this area’s finest young actresses. She sparkles like a 24-karat diamond in dime-store brooch in Deep Dish Theater Company’s earnest but badly flawed production of “After the Revolution.”
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Amy Herzog’s Provocative Play “After the Revolution” Reveals Secrets and Lies of a Radical Leftist Family
“‘After the Revolution’ is quite an astonishing play,’ said director Paul Frellick. “It is a beautifully crafted study of how we pass on ideals from generation to generation, and it feels like the kind of play a writer would produce at the end of her career, not — as is the case with [playwright Amy] Herzog — at the outset. Her writing has a rueful wisdom that belies her age.”