Forum Theatre's 'Agnes Under the Big Top'

If you insist on being literal, there is no subway connecting urban America with Liberia, India, Bulgaria and an arena of transformation that may be Death. But on a metaphoric and acoustic level, such a transit system was operating the other day, in a classroom in Silver Spring. There, as a violinist bowed a wavering, keening dissonance meant to evoke the sound and speed of underground rail, a group of actors was rehearsing "Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Tale," the play that will open Forum Th...