Tragedy – Berkeley Rep; Opera at the Castro: SensationalBuzzin' Lee Hartgravebyline‚ Mar. 21‚ 2008TRAGEDY: a tragedy at Berkeley Repertory Theatre “TRAGEDY: a tragedy” is a comedy by Will Eno (The Pillowman). As Jerry Seinfeld said of his show, “it’s a show about nothing.” And that is exactly what you get in this play. Nothing much. It starts out funny as hell on a Television Broadcasting set. There is the Older Anchor Man who could be Walter Cronkite and the out of the studio reporters who report from various parts of the city. And what they report about is basically about nothing. They are out there like all reporters are, trying to make a story out of nothing. That is hard to do when basically nothing is happening. |