Shimmering Glass

HOW DO YOU stage a play so that even audiences who have watched numerous versions feel they are seeing it for the first time? Make a piece set in the past by a long-dead playwright seem as if it were only just written? How do you have a drama whose outcome is already known to most viewers unspool suspensefully, reaching a climax that leaves them overcome with emotion without any warning it will happen? You start by assembling a cast of four actors suited to their characters not only in their aff...