The Clarence Brown Theatre presents a troubling and thoughtful recent play, Liliana Padilla’s 2018 How to Defend Yourself, to UTK’s campus, directed by Jayne Morgan. How to Defend Yourself is about just that — a group of college students who join a self-defense class in the wake of the sexual assault of one of their friends. Collaborating with both community and campus resources, CBT’s How to Defend Yourself has an important message for everyone, but one that seems particularly relevant to UTK’s campus community: both students and educators.
Review: ‘Loot’ at Flying Anvil Theatre
BY ALAN SHERROD For the first two decades of its existence since its initial production in 1965, Joe Orton’s Loot continued to shock audiences with its satiric irreverence toward civic authority, middle-class propriety, the church, the police, and the…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Sunshine Boys’
BY ALAN SHERROD Like the old joke poses: What’s the secret to comedy? Timing. Timing, as it turns out, is the very reason I am suggesting you visit Flying Anvil Theatre for their latest production, The Sunshine Boys, directed…
Review: ‘Venus in Fur’ At Flying Anvil Theatre
BY ALAN SHERROD Venus in Fur, playwright David Ives’ twist on Leopold Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 erotic novella, opened off-Broadway in 2010 to such success that it moved to Broadway the next year. By 2013, the play had inspired a Roman…
It’s Live! Flying Anvil Theatre Announces New 2021 Season
Having limited itself to the struggle of “virtual” productions since the spring of 2020, the Flying Anvil Theatre has announced its return to a live performance schedule for the remainder of 2021. Making the announcement via a teaser video on…
Flying Anvil Theatre To Go Virtual With ‘Do You Read Me?’
BY ALAN SHERROD Virtualness is not actually a word, but maybe it should be. Here’s my definition: a state of existence or action in which necessary communications are carried out by digital means through computers and networks, rather than…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘I and You’ – An Exploration of Human Connections
BY ALAN SHERROD “I and this mystery. Here we stand.” Yes, it is a mystery why 17-year old Anthony has shown up in the bedroom of his classmate, Caroline, brandishing a dog-eared copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘Boeing Boeing’ – May The Farce Be With You
By Alan Sherrod Don’t be surprised if you find yourself checking your calendar at Flying Anvil Theatre’s delicious production of Boeing Boeing. Yes, in the real world, the year is 2020 where words like “sexism” and “consensual” fly through…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s Outrageous Comedy ‘Hand To God’ – A Sock Puppet and the Nature of Evil
By Alan Sherrod Just when you thought that Flying Anvil Theatre and director Jayne Morgan had exhausted the supply of plays involving dysfunctional southern families, they have unearthed another gem—this one with more than a little comic bite. There…
Review: Life Goes On in ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ at Flying Anvil Theatre
By Alan Sherrod What could be simpler—five men and women take a six-week acting class at a community center somewhere in Vermont, engaging in exercises designed to help them explore the projection of their feelings. For the audience of…