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By Wesley
James
It's about time zombie plays dug a little bit deeper than blood, guts, and combat, and Random Act's production of Ladies Night of the Living Dead by Bryan Renaud at the Chicago Fringe Festival is refreshing because it's more about the ladies than anything else. This is vital because we need to care about (or at least understand) our protagonists before all hell breaks loose. Without rich character building, there's simply no opportunity for tension. 
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By Wesley
James
“She was more than a victim. She was a girl.” If you're going to tell a story about the way stories are told, you’d better start by being damn sure you know how to tell a story. Daughters of Ire is bold in that way - in the same way that Shakespeare was bold. The familiar formula takes a story that is thousands of years old, and makes it modern - painfully, impossibly modern. Daughters does that well, but also decries the first tellers, the manuscripts, the heroes; the condemnation of progenitors of such a story - that is revolutionary. 
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