TheLab@Inscape

Lower Depths

Marie Bonfils / January 20, 2015

Down and Out in Nizhny Novgorod

The most famous play by Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths, was produced by Theatre Machine, in the most appropriate theatre space in Seattle-the old immigration jail, now called theLab@INScape. Used for Kafka’s The Trial, it has a sordid, sinister creepiness about it making it highly suitable for a play about the lumpen-proletariat of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

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The Elephant Man

Marie Bonfils / March 17, 2014

A Victorian Tale of Sadness and Compassion

Along with Jack the Ripper, the story of the Elephant Man is one the most intriguing stories of the Victorian era. Neither ever satisfied human curiosity by tying up the loose ends. The identify of Jack the Ripper is still unknown and to this day the cause of the Elephant Man’s deformities is still a mystery to scientists.