Steve Romagnoli's "Skip to My Lou"

Steve Romagnoli's Skip to My Lou currently playing at Theater For the New City, is a drama of ideas, but it's also a drama. In this regard it bears the strong imprint of Harold Pinter whose threat filled story lines were also disquisitions on being. The air of constant and literal physical menace is something that the director S.C. Lucier artfully underscores throughout the production. Skip to My Lou is predicated on two experiments one occurs early in the play when Chavonne (Marguerite Genard),...