By Ernest Kearney — The best theatre I’ve seen has been on bare stages, under looming oak trees, in gloomy, ramshackle homes. So whenever I walk into an equity-waver house and I see a really superbly designed (and undoubtedly expensive)

by Ernest Kearney  —  Matei Visniec is a Romanian playwright who sought and was granted political asylum in France in 1987.  Following the collapse of the Communist regime of Nicolai Ceausescu in 1989, Visniec became one of his nation’s most